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April 28, 2008 ( PowerHomeBiz
) - USA --
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.
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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 background"
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/
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