A recent SMH article on greener computing mentioned Blackle, an initiative from an Australian company, Heap Media. Based on the idea that black/grey screen colouring requires less power than white or brighter colours, it gives you the Google search engine in basic, cut-down monochrome simplicity.
Wonder how much power would be saved if school computers routinely used this instead of ordinary Google (except for students/staff with vision problems, which is a fraction of the total)?
(The SMH article was called, Laying waste to yesterday's widgets).
http://www.blackle.com/
Added later: commenters have added their input to this entry re vision problems and the claims about Blackle, so do read what they have said.
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It's a great idea, but I know a lot of people (including myself) who do not have vision problems but find it very difficult to read full page white on black. To me, the text seems to swim on the page!
There's a lot of evidence that the claims made about Blackle are not true. See http://techlogg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=360&Itemid=9 .
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