This is fantastic:
http://ecoandy.com/index.htm
http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/about.htm
Ecosmartsearch is owned by Andrew Davey age 14. My search engine is powered by Google.
Back in February I read a blog post by a leading expert in "green" computing called Mark Ontkush he calculated the following:
"An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.
Take at 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 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 are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few colour codes."
Mark inspired me to start ecosmartsearch.com
This can be found ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html
The point of Ecosmartsearch is not just to save energy, but to make us more aware. We also hope that by displaying ecosmartsearch when your computer comes on, you will think of other ways of saving energy. We also would really like it if you set us as your homepage as a reminder of saving energy
To use this energy saving version of google bookmark:
http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/
