googles earth hour?

[Yaka]

Google looks like every bodys fave search engine was preety much flicked the lights off for apointless exercise,

stupidity ftw

 

[Chronictank]

you made the thread, so it served its purpose

 

[Ch3tan]

Rubbish, I quite like the black page, but the search results still come up in white. Really harsh on your eyes going from one to the other.

 

[DaShark]

Ch3tan try Blackle - Energy Saving Search for a black google.

 

[old.user4556]

One question.

Does anyone know if they've stopped flood lighting the houses of parliament?

If the answer is "they haven't", I won't take Brown and his band of fuckwits seriously over climate change. Long live the 10mpg V8 crowd.

/turns 300w halogen lights 'up to 11'

 

[Panda On Smack]

/turns 300w halogen lights 'up to 11'

Awesome film

 

[old.user4556]

yeah

 

[RandomBastard]

does anyone actually believe that a "black" google saves energy?
As far as I know, tfts are always lit and just filter light, so no energy saved there?
Do crts save energy with black?

 

[Ch3tan]

random, google themselves said it will save no energy, they were just doing it raise awareness and show their support for earth hour.

 

[RandomBastard]

ch3t, I was more referring to "blackle" Blackle - Energy Saving Search the black version of google that does claim to save energy.

Nice to see that google admit that it saves no energy though.

 

[Sparx]

On this day, cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Chicago, Melbourne, Dubai, and Tel Aviv, will hold events to acknowledge their commitment to energy conservation.

i wonder how much energy they wasted organising such events, i bet its more than would be saved switching lights off

As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power

Makes the whole black google things a pure publicity stunt and nothing more