# cool day to search Google

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 29, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193 "2008-03-29T19:09:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193/1 "2008-03-29T19:09:58Z")

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If you haven’t already noticed [Google](http://www.google.com) is, well, different today. It’s for a good cause, and it’s a good way to get out a message. But it will only look like this for one day.  
I never would have thought of doing a “What are some awesome Google searches to do?” thread - until now.

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193/2 "2008-03-29T21:09:21Z")

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Ah yes. I saw that if Google changed from white to black, there’d be some silly amout of savings in energy from just that.

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**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193/3 "2008-03-29T23:59:37Z")

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According to one of my professors (a chemist, not EE), power plants don’t have a way to store power, so the power they’re producing is just going to be wasted, meaning that there’ll be no impact from it.

Anyone with more expertise know anything about this?

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**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193/4 "2008-03-30T00:13:37Z")

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[QUOTE=chaoticbear]  
According to one of my professors (a chemist, not EE), power plants don’t have a way to store power, so the power they’re producing is just going to be wasted, meaning that there’ll be no impact from it.

Anyone with more expertise know anything about this?  
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Although IIRC our own illiustrious power guru **UnaPersson** has commented about utilizing extra generators during peak load times. If extras are not needed because of a saving measure, the fuel needed to drive those extra generators is not spent.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-day-to-search-google/443193/5 "2008-03-30T08:23:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]  
Ah yes. I saw that if Google changed from white to black, there’d be some silly amout of savings in energy from just that.  
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Only on CRTs, which are stupidly wasteful _all the time_, toxic, difficult to properly dispose of, and are slowly being replaced with flat-panels anyway.

Not a very intelligent move.