radish;427083 Wrote: > > I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from contributing if they want to, > just making sure people are aware that it's not "free" computing power, > it costs you some extra amount of money and it costs the environment > some extra amount of carbon emissions, even if your machine is normally > on 24/7 like mine.
To add to your thoughtful analysis, please consider that power plants must always run at some production level that is greater than consumption. I don't remember the wiggle room factor, it's something over 10% of consumption, and many systems make such information available. (Where I am it is the California ISO). Because power plants don't throttle on and off, the unused factor is considerable at low use times, like overnight (20-30-40 percent or more) Increasing power consumption of some number of PCs in people's homes will not result in any increase of carbon emissions. -- Goodsounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goodsounds's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14201 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63681 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
