What's the truth to this?

[celtwoman]

A web designer chum says that as far as he knows, a black screen consumes as much energy as a white one - it's still pixels turned on.  Anybody got any comments on this?

Energy Saving Google Screen: If Google had a black screen, taking in
account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750
mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

Comments

[squirejoe]

The only Black Screen that takes up no power is a screen that is turned off. This is coming from a Hardware Man