Folding@home is a rip off for the consumer if you think of the electricity costs read the following:
Based on my calculations if anyone was running folding@home for 8 hours a day based on it taking 200 Watts per hour (see:Site) and using current cost figures from Puget Sound Energy (www.pse.com) at 0.092492 per k Watt
The calculation would be as follows
200(watts) x 8(hours) x 7(days) x 52(weeks) / 1000(to get k watts) x 0.092492(current electricity cost per k Watt in Washington State) = $53.87USD a Year
and if you calculate $53.87USD x 40,000(Average amount of full time contributing) it equals $2,154,693.63USD out of the consumers pocket. And that does not include over use on the system.
Folding@home is a rip off for the consumer if you think of the electricity costs read the following:
Based on my calculations if anyone was running folding@home for 8 hours a day based on it taking 200 Watts per hour (see:Site) and using current cost figures from Puget Sound Energy (www.pse.com) at 0.092492 per k Watt
The calculation would be as follows
200(watts) x 8(hours) x 7(days) x 52(weeks) / 1000(to get k watts) x 0.092492(current electricity cost per k Watt in Washington State) = $53.87USD a Year
and if you calculate $53.87USD x 40,000(Average amount of full time contributing) it equals $2,154,693.63USD out of the consumers pocket.
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