April 21, 2008 – Wattoogle – the black search engine powered by Google is created to spread awareness among net savvy individuals about the amount of electricity they can save by switching over to a black background CRT monitor. Energy conservation through usage of efficient tools is an indispensable component of international efforts in order to slow global warming and to put off the potentially disastrous effects of climate change, which is mainly caused due to the increase in the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
It is true, we all care for our environment, but we are so busy with our every day routine that we do not find the time to take those precautionary steps to save our environment from the huge disaster – Global Warming. Wattoogle emphasizes that if about 40% of the energy consumed by telecommunications and office equipments in the United States employ power management techniques, nearly 23 TWh/year of energy savings is possible. If this concept is implemented worldwide, then enormous amount of electricity can be saved which would result in at least some percentage reduction in the amount of Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
Generally, white and bright colors use up to 20 percent more power than dark or black colors. Unfortunately, word processors and email tend to use white backgrounds, which mean more power is consumed each day while using these programs. According to Wattoogle, if everyone changes the color scheme of the monitor to black they will save a considerable amount of energy each day. To prove this it has come up with an interesting statistics –
“Google, the world’s largest search engine gets about 200 million queries each day. If each query lasts for at least 10 seconds, Google would run for nearly 550,000 hours every day at a white background consuming 74 watts of power for each search. At the same time, if the search engine is shifted to a black background that would save (74 – 59 = 15 watts). This means energy savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours every day and a whopping 3000 Megawatt-hours in a year. Now, if we take into account that nearly 25% of monitors used worldwide are CRTs and it costs 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, then $75,000 and a lot of energy can be saved just by simply shifting to a black backgroundâ€
Wattoogle is created by an individual who cares for the Mother Earth and has taken this initiative to ensure that our environment remains beautiful and clean. Wattoogle encourages net savvy individuals to set “Wattoogle†as their homepage by following the link given in its website.
For more information, you can visit http://www.wattoogle.com/
