Posted by admin | Posted in Green Energy | Posted on 08-01-2011
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Creative online/computer related energy conservation?
I am working on a presentation that highlights a few websites and services that creatively conserve energy one way or another. I have thus far mentioned Blackle, EcoFont, and ThinkHost. Does anyone know of any other services or websites that were designed with this same idea in mind?
In case you were wondering, blackle is a google powered search engine that boasts on their energy savings due to the fact that the screen is black instead of white. EcoFont is a program that “punches” holes into font in order to save on ink. ThinkHost is a hosting service that “uses” alternative energy sources.
Also, some statistics on energy consumption and conservation would be helpful. I’m unaware of any resources where this can be found. Can someone help there as well?
Thank you for your time.
I’ve found a lot of interesting information about personal energy usage from this site:
http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/howmuch.html
Also a good place to look for conservation tips is treehugger.com (yes it sounds hippie-ish, and it sort of is). and if you want facts on how much energy is used by say, an average home, the country, etc. a quick google search of “how much electricity does ___ use per day/year” usually gets what you want pretty quick.
Other than this, i can’t really think of any services that help conserve energy. i know there are probrams online that you can download that optimize your computer’s power settings to use less power.
And slightly off topic, i feel i must give my opinion on blackle.com. Blackle is now obsolete, displaying a black screen only saves money on the old crt monitors (big heavy ones). the new lcd flat screens use essentially the same energy (negligibly more, actually) to show a dark screen because the backlight is always on no matter what.
thats my rant, hope it helped. and good luck
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