Wake up, Save Electricity by a small step

Save Energy by small things

Hi Lisp Hug Lispworks,
Today when electricity is so crucial, we need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy.

We are all internet savvy and we google a lot for searches. A blog post 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.

Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.

I hope you have got the point. Laalten.com saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. A given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.

Please spread the good word among your friends, neighbours and forward this email to as many peoply as you can. Lets use www.laalten.com and save energy.

What I am asking is only that you make a small change in your life to help future generations by using Laalten.com when searching on the Internet. If we all come together we can cause change for the better and save a ton of energy.

Thanks,
yasir arafat