5-11-07 Tree-Hugging
It's terribly difficult to imagine that some extremely simple idea can have any sort of big impact, but consider the proposition suggested on this webpage...
If Google were to change their main webpage background color from white to black, it is calculated that this would save 750 MegaWatt Hours of electric power every year, from then on. This change would cost nothing.
Compare that potential savings of 750 MWH per year as the result of one person changing one setting on one server system, to having a billion luminescent lightbulbs replaced by a billion compact flourescent lightbulbs.
These are the sort of energy-saving, tree-hugging, environmentally friendly ideas that are needed... the ones that don't cost anything.
If Google were to change their main webpage background color from white to black, it is calculated that this would save 750 MegaWatt Hours of electric power every year, from then on. This change would cost nothing.
Compare that potential savings of 750 MWH per year as the result of one person changing one setting on one server system, to having a billion luminescent lightbulbs replaced by a billion compact flourescent lightbulbs.
These are the sort of energy-saving, tree-hugging, environmentally friendly ideas that are needed... the ones that don't cost anything.
posted by Jeff Barnard at 9:52 AM
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