I don't have the kWh numbers anymore, but the electric bill went up by
35%. Around 70e (200e/y was the usual bill). On a students budget that
wasn't really amusing.

You can do the math easily. Just get a power consumption meter and
plug it to the same socket as your computer. Then run seti/whatever
and see how much more power your computer takes as opposed to normal
idle humming. Then do an average of how many hours per day your computer
runs in a year.

Then calculate: (power_your_comp_takes*usage_hours_per_year)/1000 and
multiply that with how much one kWh costs in your house (check your
electric bill). On a normal computer that could be like 30-40e/year
or on a 24/7 machine double that. It's not much on a normal budget
of a working family, but consider that SETI just got its one
billionth (1000000000) result, and one package takes and average
of 10 hours to compute. You can do the math of how much "idle time"
people have donated via used electricity just to find E.T:s.

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Vaikene moukka. Yleisesti tiedetty asia on, että ei pidä osallistua 'Ufo
jahtiin, jos ei siihen ole varaa'

Eikä yhdyssanajahtiin selkeestikkään... niin, ja juuri tuo ajattelu
on aiheuttanu tän nykyisen energiakriisin. Kai hra Kiraffi tajuaa että
tän planeetan jokainen energiamurunen on yhteistä hyvää, eikä ainoastaan
sen maan omaa?
Tai kenties sun omaa?

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