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LANMAN Back in the House!!

Another name here that I doubt anyone remembers. I used to do SETI, SB, and a couple others about.....10 or 12 years ago.
 
No problem remembering you, deerslayer and ICXRa!
I hope RL treats you well - and I wish you a great Holiday Season!

It is great to see "oldtimers" now and then - or even more often! 🙂
Although the beer-icon/beer smiley is gone ...
 
LANMAN
Hey good to see ya 🙂, how ya doing?
Congrats on 5mill btw 😎

deerslayer said:
Another name here that I doubt anyone remembers. I used to do SETI, SB, and a couple others about.....10 or 12 years ago.
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Yep I remember you, welcome back 🙂
I don't remember what SB is though......
 
Yeah, it's been a while since I was last around here. Been busy with work, family, moving from a couple new jobs (each one better than the previous one and by my own choice , so all is good there) and some new houses to touch up. Well, just the normal cycle of life I guess 🙂

Cost of electricity is steep around here, which means DC is not really that enticing now that I need to spend more money on family rather than on just myself.

1kWh around here is about DKr. 2.10 which is approximately $0.38, so running DC machines quickly becomes quite a significant post in the budget.

I miss Folding tho, so now and then I come by here to have a look at who's around and donate some cycles, until my conscience makes me shut it down again... Oh well, when the kids move out in some years I guess I'll get time and money to get back into it again some more.


EDIT: Just found these images, right after I posted the above.
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/electriccost1.gif
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/electricppp.gif
I live in Denmark 🙂
 
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I'd probably have to get another job to pay my electric bill at that rate. My wife and kids like to turn on every possible electricity consuming device in the house and leave them on all day long.
 
Assimilator1 said:
Hi MechEng 🙂
Don't you crunch when on your PC when your just surfing etc?

Nasty lec prices btw!
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Well, on modern PC's there is a significant difference in power consumption when just browsing, or actually loading the CPU/GPU 100% on all cores.

I allready spend $ 2500-3000 a year on electricity, and i do not heat or cool my house with electricity.

Assuming some numbers for a single full time folder:
250w = 0.25kW
24*365 = 8760 h/year
0.25*8760 = 2190kWh
2190kWh*0.40$ = $876/year

Too much for the time being, but some day... 🙂

and then I haven't even touched the subject of the carbon footprint... When I (in a few years time) have installed some solar panels, it will be cheaper electricity but also save a lot of carbon output. At least as long as we here in Denmark still use coal/gas for much of our production of electricity.
 
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