Mark asks…
What are you doing to prevent climat change and save the environment?
What I’m doing:
-Using a rain barrel to collect rain from storms so I don’t wave to use any water from the hose when I water plants
-Walking or biking to many places to save energy
-Using resuable shopping bags for groceries
-Using those special flush toilets that save lost of water
-Recycling
-Using the blackle search engine instead of google to save energy
What are you doing to prevent climat change and to save the environment?
admin answers:
I am all for saving and recycling but I also understand the we can not control the weather. Brave soldiers need to try and do some reading at the following web site:
http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php
Global Warming Hoax
Refuting the Myth of Man-made Global Warming
Arguments based on science, news, and common sense. This site is non-partisan and non-religious based. In fact we fight the new faith based religion of global warming.
John asks…
Is there a search engine that SAVES energy with LCD monitors?
For LCD monitors, Blackle.com and Earthle.com do NOT save more energy that Google.com. In fact, they use a little bit more. Blackle.com and Earthle.com only conserve energy with the older, glass computer screens. So my question is, is there a search engine designed to save energy for LCD monitors?
admin answers:
Hi there ELMOtional,
Regarding a search engine that will save energy via an LCD monitor, the energy use will not change regardless of which search engine you are using as the power in an LCD is used via a fluorescent tube / tubes and are always on whilst an LCD is switched on.
There are ways in which you can set things up to run on Carbon Neutral energy.
If you go to http://www.homebrewpower.co.uk or email [email protected] he will advise you on how, for example, to set up a small solar panel, charge controller, batteries and an inverter so you can power your PC and monitor from the SUN.
He sells kits and also provides a complete installation package for what he describes as Eco Sockets.
He even sells a DVD on how to create your own carbon neutral electricity for free!
Hope this helps you out x
Carol asks…
Does making a search on Google really use as much energy as boiling a kettle?
I was shocked to hear on the BBC news that making one search on Google uses up as much energy as boiling a kettle. I have timetables and maps but I have often opted to use the internet, usually via Google, to save time. I was not aware of the environmental damage I could be doing. If this is true, and I hope it’s not, how and why does it need so much energy?
admin answers:
It’s not that your computer alone doing a search burns that much energy.
It’s the total amount of power used for that short exchange of data, as they travel through the different routers and relays, in addition to your PC, and that particular Google MEGA-DATA CENTER that answered the question.
Remember, your search has to pass through Google’s Data Center firewall, security and anti-virus servers, verify the message came through clean, process the request (maybe on the same server), pass a request for the data (from the storage area network array of file servers and ultra-backed up redundant disk drives), then make the return trip back to you.
Each hop from router to router (and there are many) typically runs through a firewall, security and antivirus set of servers as well, in addition to verifying the integrity of the message. Not to mention the need for each router to record and retain that message for ten years. And guess what” that router is sitting in its own data center too, and has to do a similar process to retain your message for the Feds, so they can use to hang cyber criminals.
The message integrity may also need retransmit sometiimes, and some integrity checks require your PC to verify.
All in all, that adds up to quite a bit of power use. And you wonder why we give environmentalists so little respect or credence.
Hope that clears things up!
Laura asks…
What is a good search engine to use to save energy?
not google or anything because that wastes to much energy.
admin answers:
If you have a CRT go to Blackle if not just as well stay with Google.
Richard asks…
is there a moonlight version of google chrome which saves energy?
admin answers:
Browsers of anykind do not save power. Your computers motherboard and cpu have to be designed to switch itself off at times of non-use.
The technology is hard wired into the computer and not into the software – although it is the software that does the measuring.
Use a browser that best fits your liking. Forget going green all of a sudden.
However, sometimes some software is very cleverly designed that it may save you perhaps 1% of total power used which means nothing to the over scheme of energy efficiency.
If you really want to save energy then see if you can harness the energy from the sun. Perhaps an home solar or wind generator.
Source(s):
http://DIYHomeEnergy.info
Donald asks…
Does Blackle really help save energy?
Heard of Blackle? If not then here’s a link.
http://www.blackle.com/
It claims that by using a black screen instead of a white one, it saves energy. But wouldn’t a black screen require energy too?
I’m sort of confused. Does blackle use less energy than google, or is it just a hoax?
admin answers:
It depends on what type of computer screen you are using, CRT saves energy, (the big old fat ones) and LCD doesnt, however I have heard that the newest plasma ones do save with black screens.
However, regardless you should try Bellzar.com – its exactly the same as Blackle except 100% of the profits from it go to help cure cancer.
Cheers
Maria asks…
Is Blackle just a… publicity stunt or does it really save energy?
I switched to using it after reading about the power savings (not that I`m obsessed with that, but if I can help with doing something so irrelevant to me, I`ll do it). I actually like the black screen, my eyes don`t hurt that much.
But then I read some articles saying that it actually consumes MORE energy that plain old Google and it got me thinking… Why hadn`t they simply changed the original Google`s colour? And why can`t I view only pictures, like I can on Google?
I just don`t get it. Anyone has an explanation?
admin answers:
Blackle is a third-party (ie not Google) site. They say it uses less energy, Google says they use more energy. Its a case of who you trust more. I personally trust Google. And I’m hardly ever on the google main page anymore because I have the Google toolbar.
David asks…
what is that website from google that is black and saves energy?
admin answers:
Blackle.com
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