::scr Seti@Home & Global Warming

[Chris 'Billy' Abbott]

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Alaric Snell wrote:

> On Friday 17 May 2002 11:54, you wrote:
> > Is someone good at maths?  I was just wondering if it's possible to
> > work out how energy consumption has been 'wasted' on the Seti@Home
> > project?  There's a lot of computers out there that never idle,
> > continually sucking up electricity and leading to depletion of
> > various fuel resources.

I've read about this before, but i can't remember where...
this site gives some numbers:

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/2404

billy

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