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What about Folding@Home or other high energy computing tasks.

If you have your PS4, XBOX, home desktop, SO's laptop, etc running high intensity tasks how much energy would that be?

The biggest power consumer is things like Geysers, kettles, stoves and so on. A desktop running at 100% uses like 200W whereas a geyser uses like 2kw.

> Geysers

For those wondering, that term means hot water heater.

If your hot water heater resembles a geyser, you need to call a plumber ASAP.

Electric hot water heater. For those with too much money in their bank account.

2kW when the faucet is running, about zero when it isn't. With a duty cycle of 1% (= running hot water for 15 minutes a day), that desktop could beat your geyser, even when running at 10% throughout the day.

The biggest power consumer is electric heat/ac.

http://www.torontohydro.com/sites/electricsystem/residential...

My high end gaming PC would push over 500W when mining Bitcoin (actually Lite coin) back in the day.

Side note: Swype keyboard will not allow me to write Litecoin as one word with a bracket after it, no matter how much I correct it.

When autocorrect refuses to cooperate I find that spacing things out between normal words then deleting the spacers usually works. Correction usually only occurs after typing punctuation, not for deletion.

Litecoin and []

Litecoin []

Yeah, that seems to be the only way to do it.

(Litecoin)... Strange, it's changed its policy now.

I mined Ethereum last summer on a 6 GPU, dual-PSU rig. Each GPU consumed roughly 220W-250W IIRC, so the heat and noise was considerable.

The heat from that would be horrendous. A typical space heater consumes about the same as that.

Even at just 500W my machine would heat the room considerably over a few hours.

That's one panel worth of power, theoretically.

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