How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.
How can you help?

We encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts! You will also be reminded about the need to save energy each time you see the Blackle page load.

Help us spread the word about Blackle by telling your friends and family to set it as their home page. If you have a blog then give us a mention. Or put the following text in your email signature: "Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time".

There are a lot of great web sites about saving energy and being more environmentally friendly. They are full of great tips covering the little things that we can all do to make a difference today. Try Blackling "energy saving tips" or visit treehugger.com a great blog dedicated to environmental awareness.


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I won a lucky draw!



I was awfully awfully excited about the win. Reason being I signed up Her World for the draw. Alrighty, my gian peng side is showing. But when the girl called me, I was jumping up and down. After all, I went to the roadshow, look at the golf bag and told Mr Tan that Im going to win that bag. Signed up for the magazine and hoped very hard.

And today I realised, I din win the golf bag. I won some vouchers from Liz Claiborne.
I want the bag! I want the bag even though I don't have any clubs. I want the bag though I don't know for what.

tragic

on a different note, i have been such a slacker. left the bank for 2 months already and yes, i have been keeping myself occupied in different manners but mainly staying up till 4 am, junking, waking at 1 and turning up for (work) at 4. impressive. now i think its time to look for sometime serious.

time to grow up again.