[LINK] Blackle: turn Google black to save the planet

[Adam Todd]

At 09:36 AM 26/07/2007, Stilgherrian wrote:
>Sydney-based Heap Media is getting attention thanks to Blackle -- their
>front-end onto Google which turns the website background black. In theory,
>this saves energy because a monitor uses more power when displaying a
>white/light image than a black/dark one.

A CRT maybe, but a LCD actually uses more energy as it has to turn ON 
and excite the liquid crystal pixels in order to stop the light passing through

Gees some people are stupid!