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Ecosia, the search engine for the good conscience

How often do you look for different sites or simple information on the Internet? Most likely, very often, usually several times a day. Solely for the research for this short post I have eight times looking for different. But any search engine is based on servers and process the more this server, they also consume more energy.
they know how much power does the largest search engine, Google, to answer all these queries? Do you know where this power comes from.
leaves the question on the amount not say much, Google finally passes this information to nowhere, but the price for electricity is known to the this page: 2 million U.S. dollars! The origin of this current is not really known, but not difficult to guess: It will probably be a regular mix of all possible sources, so a lot of CO 2 passes into the atmosphere, and large masses of nuclear waste must be disposed of. A typical excuse is that there is no alternative, or that the other search engines also consume electricity, so a change is not meaningful.
In this post I would like to present the main alternative, namely one that also does something for the environment instead of polluting only.

Ecosia: The green search from in60seconds on Vimeo .

Ecosia not consumed less power, but used only green electricity comes from renewable sources and do not pollute the environment. This provides a small improvement of the LCA, for the most important part of this search engine is not the CO 2 -free server operation, but the large sum of donations to the WWF, which thus protects the rain forest. But how does such a small search engine?
Ecosia itself can not afford financially to surf through the network itself and to catalog and evaluate all sides. Therefore cooperate Bing it with Microsoft and Yahoo to get their search results so provided by other companies.
What are the reasons for switching to Ecosia?

1. green electricity in the server operating
2. donation of at least 80% of revenue to the WWF
3. Reduced dependence on Google, less data will go to the "Octopus"