search in black

I received an email from Andrew Davey at the weekend, a thirteen year old entrepreneur who has launched his own green search engine called Ecosmartsearch.com. Apparently a computer screen displaying a black image only uses 59 watts, in comparison to 74 watts to display a page with a white background. This means that we can save 15 watts per page load, and its Google powered so you get exactly the same results as google, just in black and green, rather than white and blue. It takes a bit of getting used to but after a while starts to feel a bit punk, and that's no bad thing. Andrew was inspired by an expert in green computing, Mark Ontkush, who calculate that we could save about 3000 Megawatt hours a year of energy, or $75,000, just by switching a few colour codes. Andrew says, "I want to be a entrepreneur and become better at website design. I came up with the idea of a eco-friendly search engine as I could make money, become better at website design and help stop global warming. I'm very proud of myself for what I’ve done as I don't think many people of my age have made a proper website and got it onto the web." And proud he should be!