Comments on: Make Your Blog Faster & Help Save the Environment

By: MarcusT

MarcusT — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:33:04 +0000

Please give some context to the statement “5,000 kilowatt-hours per year or approximately 500-1000 pounds of CO2 emissions.” – is this the saving per visitor to Wikipedia over the course of the year, and if so is the saving at the client side or server side? Or is it the cumulative saving at the Wikipedia servers over the course of a year across all visitors?

By: Christophe Strobbe

Christophe Strobbe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:43:13 +0000

The optimization of Wikipedia reminds me of “Blackle – Energy Saving Search” (www.blackle.com), a white-on-black version of Google. Blackle’s About page states:
‘Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed (ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html) the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine.’

By: Gary Walter

Gary Walter — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:33:02 +0000

Bigger, better faster. Interesting stats – directly correlated with the proliferation of broadband.

I remember my first website back in 94/95 – it was strictly html and a couple of small photos. With dialup, speed was of the essence. Then I became the tech coordinator at a university with a T-1 – Tstinking1!!!! I lost all control and began to post photos of 150kb, or so.

You make a really good argument for the management of energy resources. Good for you – wish I could be there tonight, but can’t make it in – but you sold me!!

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