Why is this website so dark?

Most monitors use less energy to display a dark page than a light one. This website has been designed to use the least amount of energy and therefore make an, admittedly very small, reduction to global energy usage.

It has been calculated that if all computer monitors showed a dark instead of a light screen, the energy saved worldwide would be hundreds of megaWatts.

With this in mind, the search engine Google has created a black version of its front page. If you were to make this your home page, you would further contribute to the saving of precious resources, delay global warming, and, of course, make a small reduction to your electricity bill.

The name of this version of Google is Blackle, and you can visit it by clicking here. From there, you can make Blackle your home page.

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Website created by John Firth

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