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 08-15-2008, 01:51 PM | #1 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |  Save Energy W/ Blackle
It's a Google powered search engine that saves energy by having a black screen instead of a white screen. Looks cool too. Take a look and see what you think.
Blackle
Apparently the use of black, instead of white, consumes considerably less energy. If the numbers on the home page are to be believed ( 771,956.330 Watt hours saved ) it seems to be working.
In any event, it's a different look for your homepage or search engine if you are interested.
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Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 08-15-2008, 03:58 PM | #2 | Supporting Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,885 |
LCDs burn the same amount of juice regardless of what color they're producing. | |
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| 08-15-2008, 04:28 PM | #3 | Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Passaic, New Jersey Posts: 46 |
Even black? How can it take energy to make black? | |
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| 08-15-2008, 05:54 PM | #4 | Call Me Doug Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: It's because I actually HAVE those skills! Posts: 21,258 |
I wish I had an LCD. I have a 15" monitor that was probably new and relevant in 1991 on my work computer. shi' ite sucks man....
JD __________________ "as for my Sword & Spear we will serve the throne, but NEVER that man who sits upon it" - Achilles - Warrior of Warriors
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Originally Posted by doctherock
Dillinger didn't have to let me try Cammenga Mags before I bought them; but he is a man of great character & a man who's word to me now is a good as gold. If he recommends it I know its good stuff.
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| 08-15-2008, 07:01 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,615 |
Save energy?! Hell JD I want to burn energy!! I want to burn, burn, burn babee!!! Save a tree, burn a hippy. But be careful, the aroma of burning wood is a reminder of campfires, pregame bonfires, and roasting marshmellows, burning a hippy just stinks like a mixture of tires and gas.
It may or may not be true about black screens, but they sure don't read well for me on webpages. I can't stand reading black with colored or white text. Bad eyes I guess.... __________________
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| 08-15-2008, 07:37 PM | #6 | Supporting Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,885 |
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Save energy?! Hell JD I want to burn energy!! I want to burn, burn, burn babee!!! Save a tree, burn a hippy. But be careful, the aroma of burning wood is a reminder of campfires, pregame bonfires, and roasting marshmellows, burning a hippy just stinks like a mixture of tires and gas.
It may or may not be true about black screens, but they sure don't read well for me on webpages. I can't stand reading black with colored or white text. Bad eyes I guess....
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I've got near perfect vision and it burns my eyes out pretty quick. | |
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| 08-15-2008, 09:49 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 578 |
Even if it did save energy why bother ?
People have been buying energy saving light bulbs , refrigerators , freezers , Heaters , A/C units , Stoves , bla , bla , bla so the companies that produce said energy's profit margins slip so what happens ? THEY RAISE THE PRICE PER UNIT OF ENERGY and your right back to paying as much or more for the energy bills .
We have a Nuclear reactor for our electric , someone please tell me how the cost of keeping the thing running keep going up 20% every year because that's the rate increases they ask for every year and usually get them .
I must be delusional but I coulda sworn when they started building those things they claimed they would provide in the long run cheaper more dependable power . Yea right !!! | |
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| 08-16-2008, 12:18 AM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Albany, New York Posts: 3,252 |
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I must be delusional but I coulda sworn when they started building those things they claimed they would provide in the long run cheaper more dependable power . Yea right !!!
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You're not delusional - it's the same crock of sh!t they fed us when the State Lotteries got started - better roads, lower school taxes, etc. etc. __________________
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| 08-16-2008, 12:41 AM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 108 |
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I wish I had an LCD. I have a 15" monitor that was probably new and relevant in 1991 on my work computer. shi' ite sucks man....
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