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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.

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> 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.

That's one panel worth of power, theoretically.

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.

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