Comments on: Green Urban Myth: Can We Please Kill the Idea that Black Screens Save Energy? http://earthfirst.com/green-urban-myth-can-we-please-kill-the-idea-that-black-screens-save-energy/ A Sharp Eye -- With a Green Edge Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:33:14 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: MRGreen http://earthfirst.com/green-urban-myth-can-we-please-kill-the-idea-that-black-screens-save-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-497 MRGreen Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:55:39 +0000 http://earthfirst.com/?p=658#comment-497 I believe there's a lot of wrong information about all this. What you say is true... but not always. While all CRTs consume more power in white (and the difference is in general around 10% to 25%), for the LCDs the answer is: depends. Here you can find a test with a CRT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFM996boA0 And here's a test with a LCDs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1HVE5clWw In both examples, they consume less in black. However for most LCDs the difference is really very small. MRGreen I believe there’s a lot of wrong information about all this. What you say is true… but not always.
While all CRTs consume more power in white (and the difference is in general around 10% to 25%), for the LCDs the answer is: depends. Here you can find a test with a CRT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFM996boA0
And here’s a test with a LCDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv1HVE5clWw
In both examples, they consume less in black.
However for most LCDs the difference is really very small.

MRGreen

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