[OT] Energy Efficient Search Engine

[Monte Goulding]

Unfortunately in addition to making an almost unreadable search engine they 
got their sums wrong.
http://techlogg.com/content/view/317/31/

The energy saving settings on your pc are a good first step. Particularly 
switching monitors off instead of using screensavers. On the other hand you 
could use some of your spare processing power to help with climate 
modelling: http://www.climateprediction.net

Cheers

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Monte Goulding                                      BCompSci
Sweat Technologies                      BAppSci (Hons)

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:34 AM
Subject: [OT] Energy Efficient Search Engine


> Thought a few people on this list would appreciate this.
>
> When your screen is white, (such as an empty word page, or the Google 
> page)
> your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59
> watts. Some dude called 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 a search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same 
> functions
> as the white Google version, but with lower energy consumption was 
> created.
>
>
> Check it out at www.blackle.com
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