11-21-2008, 09:11 PM
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WeWe.com.au Energy Saving Search Engine
Hey everyone,
I have recently launched an Energy Saving Australian search engine called WeWe.com.au : Energy Saving Search Engine
An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.
The site runs off googles search results so you will still be using the best search engine available although you will be helping to save the enviroment by concerving energy whilst lowering your energy bill.
For example:
Take a look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.
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