A new version of Google - Blackle?

[Matt]

By the way.... I am highly skeptical that painting a monitor black saves any energy over painting it white. Why would it? What about green? Maybe brown is the best? Just because they are emulating a room in your house that has the lights out doesn't mean those lights are really out.

Your monitor is still emitting photons into your eyeballs and something has to generate those photons, then something else has to bend those light rays rays so that they appear black in color. (Which is actually an oxymoron because black, by definition, is not a "color"...)

It's an old wives tale if you ask me. They have a 36 page document linked from their site that may allude to such savings but there are going to need to be more people that test this theory, because at its very very very best, this is a theory IMHO.