It’s one of the more bizarre theories we’ve seen - apparently, if internet pages with white backgrounds are changed to black, a lot of energy would be saved each year. Suppsedly, an all white web page uses about 74W to display the page; an all black web page uses just 59W in comparison.

It was only a matter of time before someone applied this theory to search engines whose pages are predominantly white in colour. Enter Blackle, a black version of Google. It’s look takes a bit of getting used to an certainly won’t appeal to everyone but if what they say is true, you’ll be wishing you thought of it first!

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