google lights out san francisco

Google today promotes a energy conservation event called Lights Out San Francisco, showing the Google Homepage with black background (hence lights out) to its San Francisco Bay Area users.

On Saturday, October 20, 2007, Lights Out San Francisco invites the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) and turn off all lights for one hour, from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm PDT.

FYI: Google already knows that “displaying black may actually increase energy usage”. :-/

[via Google Operating System->Geeked.info]