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This doesn't really make much sense.

First, the description makes it sounds as though this is Google's idea. Blackle is a completely separate company that just happens to use Google. Google isn't really endorsing this.

Second, if you're using an LCD monitor, there aren't significant energy savings.

Third, the cost of talking to Blackle's servers, and then calling out and talking to Google's servers, and then replying and sending info to Blackle, and then Blackle pushing that info back to you takes more energy. They have to run a whole separate set of servers to run this, and that probably uses a lot more energy.

Also, reading white on black increases your eye strain substantially, so you're trading the possibility of incremental energy savings for the near certainty of additional health problems, including headaches.

While I'm keen on black, for some reason that just makes me think it's an angsty teen search engine.

Oh my--so stupid.

Ya, actually - I just bought a Kill-A-Watt and have been going crazy measuring everything. With my Dell 17" LCDs there's no difference* between a totally white screen and a totally black screen.

* I think the resolution on the Kill-A-Watt only goes down as low as a single watt, so it could be different in the range of milliwatts.

Hmm. I was wondering, thought it could be a good idea (not a tech-savvy girl, me) and couldn't figure out why it didn't have all the nice functions that Google has. That explains it.

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