YouGreen： Save the Planet one video at a time

YouGreen： Save the Planet one video at a time插件简介

YouGreen： Save the Planet one video at a time插件描述

Heres how it wks:

 Install extension.
 Now, you can set default quality by clicking the extensions icon located on the address bar.
 Whenever you change tab different from YouTube, video quality will automatically be downgraded to lowest, with no change in audio quality.
 And when youll come back to the YouTab tab, YouGreen will intelligently upgrade to your selected default video quality.

From cat videos to live game streaming, the wld loves to watch videos on YouTube. YouTube has a variety of categies of videos, but music dominates them all, almost all the mostwatched videos are music videos. It is a general process that we start playing our latest favite on one tab  continue doing some other stuff a different tab. But theres one problem in this, what? In the background tab, one song ends  another starts  it goes on, still couldnt figure out the problem? Problem is that videos are running continuously in the background  theyre fetching 100s of MB on full HD quality.

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Now lets jump into a different sty. Some days ago, I came across this article

Accding to the American Council f an EnergyEfficient Economy it takes 5.12 kWh of electricity per gigabyte of transferred data. And accding to the Department of Energy the average US power plant expends 600 grams of carbon dioxide f every kWh generated. That means that transferring 1GB of data produces 3kg of CO2.
Theres one another article.

The combination of transmitting your data  sting it in a data center probably requires about 3 to 7 kWh per gigabyte. That’s about a million times me than the energy you used to save to your hard drive. Instead of 0.1 microwatthours, your text document has sucked down 0.1 watthours of electrical energy — enough to light an LED bulb f about 30 seconds.
Now the carbon footprint of electricity generation varies in different countries because of different sources from which electricity is generated. F example, carbon footprint from electricity generated from coal is much higher as compared to wind  solar. F a rough calculation, lets consider the USA where on average, 1.222 lbs CO2 per kWh which is 0.5534 kg CO2 per kWh.

Emissions facts f electricity by your monthly bill are based on state based figures from the EPA eGRID to get the statebystate prices f energy,  the emissions facts are generated from the Department of Energy’s Energy Infmation Administration. On average, electricity sources emit 1.222 lbs CO2 per kWh. State CO2 emissions per kWh may vary greatly in accdance with the amount of clean energy in the energy supply (Vermont: 0.00668 lbs/kWh; Wyoming: 2.041lbs/kWh). (Source: (Source: EPA eGRID Summary Tables)
Also, check out this, this  this.

Now lets check some other numbers, accding to Netflix.

Watching TV shows  movies on Netflix uses about 1 GB of data per hour f each stream of stard definition video,  up to 3 GB per hour f each stream of HD video.

F a rough idea, a car produces around 150200gm of CO2 per km driven. Also, you can google the Carbon footprint of any daily activity.


Now, coming back to the problem, we know that music videos are still running continuously in the background tab(since I start writing this article) while fetching 100s of MB on full HD quality, but what if theres a way in which we can still listen to the music in the same quality by restricting video quality to the lowest, which we were not watching anyway  itll function by fetching just fraction of the data compared to fmer way.

So, heres the simple solution, YouGreen: saving the planet one video at a time.


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YouGreen： Save the Planet one video at a time插件离线安装方法

1.首先用户点击谷歌浏览器右上角的自定义及控制按钮，在下拉框中选择设置。

2.在打开的谷歌浏览器的扩展管理器最左侧选择扩展程序或直接输入：chrome://extensions/

3.找到自己已经下载好的Chrome离线安装文件xxx.crx，然后将其从资源管理器中拖动到Chrome的扩展管理界面中，这时候用户会发现在扩展管理器的中央部分中会多出一个”拖动以安装“的插件按钮。

4.下载 YouGreen： Save the Planet one video at a timeChrome插件v1.99.9版本到本地。

5.勾选开发者模式，点击加载已解压的扩展程序，将文件夹选择即可安装插件。

注意：最新版本的chrome浏览器直接拖放安装时会出现“程序包无效CRX-HEADER-INVALID”的报错信息，参照这篇文章即可解决