[ACTU] Blackle : un Google noir pour sauver les tubes cathodiques

Blackle : un Google noir pour sauver les tubes cathodiques
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Vous connaissez Blackle ? Il s'agit d'un site, créé par HeapMedia, qui utilise le moteur de Google, mais dont la page est intégralement noire. Les écritures sont donc blanches, y compris lorsque les résultats sont affichés.

Blackle



Comme vous pouvez le constater, le style est du coup assez différent. Simple effet de mode ou esthétique. Que nenni ! Blackle part du constat très simple que l'affichage de la couleur blanche sur un moniteur CRT (à tube cathodique), demande une dépense d'énergie plus importante.

La page de garde de Blackle affiche du coup le nombre de Watts-heures économisés de cette manière : actuellement 136 991 856. Il ne s'agit pas non plus d'un simple problème d'économie d'énergie, car l'utilisation du noir économise également les écrans eux-mêmes.

Au total, l'ambition de Blackle est de faire économiser à la planète 750 mégawatts par an. Rappelons que PC INpact propose depuis sa création des fonds noirs ou foncés, afin de contenter les INpactiens écolos.

Rédigée par Vincent Hermann le mercredi 08 août 2007 à 15h55
Source de l'INformation : Blackle

Is black the new green?
8/09/2007 04:05:00 AM
Posted by Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar

Reducing climate change by saving energy is an important effort we should all join, and that's why we're very glad to see the innovative thinking going into a variety of solutions. One idea, suggested by the site called "Blackle" (which is not related to Google, by the way, though the site does use our custom search engine), is to reduce energy used by monitors by providing search with a black background. We applaud the spirit of the idea, but our own analysis as well as that of others shows that making the Google homepage black will not reduce energy consumption. To the contrary, on flat-panel monitors (already estimated to be 75% of the market), displaying black may actually increase energy usage. Detailed results from a new study confirm this.

As computers become a bigger part of more people's lives, they will consume an increasing amount of energy, which is why we've invested so much in making our data centers efficient and we've joined with others to launch Climate Savers Computing, which has a goal of reducing total power consumption by more than 50% for all computers by 2010.

There are some things you can do now to reduce the energy used by your computer, such as:

* turn on the power management features. Virtually all computers today have the ability to switch into low-power modes automatically when they're idle; very few computers have this capability enabled! Here's how to do it on computers running Windows XP.

* turn off your monitor and computer when you're not using them

* turn down the brightness on your monitor

* make sure your next computer meets the efficiency standards of Climate Savers Computing (an efficient computer uses up to 50% less energy than a conventional one)

* to find the most efficient PCs available today, look for the words "EnergyStar 4.0 compliant."