Any Useless or Usefull Info On Biogoogle and Blackle? or Any Other energy saving site??

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Plz

Answer 1

As far as energy savings, sites like Blackle won't save squat. Instead, people should focus on things that really matter, like heating, cooling, and lighting use -- or even just sleeping or turning off our computers when we're not using them.

For those who haven't heard about the black background thing, the idea is that it takes more energy for a computer screen to show a white background than a black background. But there are three reasons that make this irrelevant:

1) It's only true for obsolete CRT's, not modern LCD's. CRT's are the huge, clunky old-school monitors that are like TV's, which are already obsolete. By contrast, LCD's are what most people are using today, and a black background makes no energy difference on an LCD. An LCD uses the same amount of energy no matter what the background color. I just checked Best Buy, and they're only offering 2 different CRT's...and 41 LCD's! So for most people, the background color makes no difference at all. (And if you do have an old CRT, the best way to save energy with it isn't to use a black Google, it's to get rid of it and replace it with an LCD, and then sleep it when you're not using it.)

2) Most people probably don't search Google from its home page anyway. Modern browsers and toolbars have a Google search box built right into the browser window, so you can search from any window without actually visiting the Google home page. I can't remember the last time I went to the Google home page. It's probably been years.

3) Even for people with old CRT's who actually go to the Google home page, the savings is tiny. Even after all the international press that Blackle has received, they claimed to have saved only 425 kWh for the nearly one year they've been up. To put that into perspective, the typical American family uses 888 kWh hours in a month. So in nearly a year, Blackle has saved less than half of what a family uses in a month. This is just not significant.

I use around 125 kWh/mo., saving 663 kWh vs. the typical household, or 217 kWh on a per-person basis. In two months, I alone save about as much as Blackle's whole international operation saves in nearly a year.

We can save tons of energy if we switch to CFL lightbulbs and address our heating and cooling use. Or we can chase the things that don't really matter, like using a black background for Google, and save nearly nothing at all.

Answer 2

I think biogoogle.net is the best as it is 100% offset and certified by the U.S and candian governments. BioGoogle also has a nifty search addon for IE and firefox which means you can search on any internet page.

Answer 3

If u really want to have low level of luminosity when u browse the web, in ur favorite web browser, go

in 'edit menu'

click 'preferences'

click tab 'content'

In the 'font & color' area, you can setup background/text colours & size & fonts etc.

Un-tick boxes allowing the browser to always use the pages defaults.

E.g. : orange on black is cool, blue on black is not...

Answer 4

well for blackle, it will somewhat save some energy about 25% less watts used compared to google ONLY on CRT computer moniters, if you use LCD screens for this site then it would be next to useless.  biogoogle claims that it is all of its operation is powered carbon neutral so i guess this is the best so far as being a good eco-friendly search engine.  

uhhh heres a eco-friendly site u can try:

http://www.myecoseek.com/