When your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.
In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.
www.blackle.com
Originally posted by EsotericWord.
When your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/ho ...[text shortened]... ions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.
www.blackle.com
Clan 10
what's the likelihood of Google registering their domain name thru GoDaddy?
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=blackle.com/
Registrant:
Mikibo
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BLACKLE.COM
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.BLACKLE.COM
NS2.BLACKLE.COM
For complete domain details go to:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=BLACKLE.COM
http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=blackle.com&prog_id=godaddy
Registrant:
Mikibo
PO Box 4078
Castlecrag, New South Wales 2068
Australia
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BLACKLE.COM
Created on: 24-Jan-07
Expires on: 24-Jan-08
Last Updated on: 22-Jun-07
Administrative Contact:
Heap, Toby corporate@mikibo.com
Mikibo
PO Box 4078
Castlecrag, New South Wales 2068
Australia
61401670163
Technical Contact:
Heap, Toby corporate@mikibo.com
Mikibo
PO Box 4078
Castlecrag, New South Wales 2068
Australia
61401670163
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.BLACKLE.COM
NS2.BLACKLE.COM
http://mikibo.com/about/team.php
The Mikibo Team
Mikibo has assembled a team of health and fitness experts who have a wealth of industry and academic experience to share with our members. Our experts come from a range of fields and each week answer a number of questions posted by members in the 'ask an expert' section.
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Originally posted by zeeblebotYeah, it looked a bit sus. Looks like a normal webpage that uses the google search engine and that's it.
http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIsVerify.aspx?domain=blackle.com&prog_id=godaddy
Registrant:
Mikibo
PO Box 4078
Castlecrag, New South Wales 2068
Australia
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BLACKLE.COM
Created on: 24-Jan-07
Expires on: 24-Jan-08
Last Updated on: 22-Jun-07
Administrative Contact:
Heap, ...[text shortened]... 068
Australia
61401670163
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.BLACKLE.COM
NS2.BLACKLE.COM