PHOTOGRAPHY
ARCHITECTURE
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a new way of business
we don't want your money
(but we do need some of it.)
we were sitting around talking the other day and decided that it was time to come up with a business model - so we did; and you just read it above. we're not naive and we're certainly not stupid. in our discussion we came to the conclusion that the majority of businesses on earth have, as their top goal, profit.
how much money can that business increase their business over the same quarter, last year? how much money do they have in reserves? how much money are they paying their stockholders?
so we asked ourself a different question. how much human capital do we have? how many people can we help with the knowledge we possess?
what the hell are we going to do with buckets of money anyway???
it turns out that the answer to the final question was, "well - we'll just give it away to those that need it."
So, in conclusion, we want to help people. People that need a leg up, people that want to invest in the human capital of their business, people that want to make a difference. We hope to make a dollar or two in the process but that desire is far from top of the list in our new business model.
René Graham & Chris Lawrence
LaurelHouse Studio
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year
As noted, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.
Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor! mjo] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.
Pardon our dust
Welcome to the new LaurelHouse Studio website.
We're not completely finished but will be finishing up over the next week.
Thanks for stopping by.