[ale] 0.15c an hour

[JK]

Christopher Fowler wrote:

> I think a lot of us keep our computers on 24x7 and do not realize what
> the costs are.  My wife just pays the power bill each month.  I don't
> even know how much the bill is.

I am absolutely certain that the cost of running a computer for
a month continuously is just statistical noise in comparison to
the cost of, say, cooling the house the computer lives in. I have
eight machines in my house that are on pretty much all the time.
My power bill goes from about $50/month in the winter (I have gas
heat) to about $170/month in the summer when the A/C is in play.
Those numbers have been approximately constant over the past
few years, while the number of always-on computers has gone from
2 in Y2K to 8 today.

-- JK

> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 23:45 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 17:50 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 17:02 -0500, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>That's .15 cents, not .15 dollars.
>>>>
>>>>It's 0.0015 dollars per hour if you will.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Maybe I'm reading it wrong.  The article states is costs between 10 - 20
>>>US Cents per hour to run a computer.
>>
>>That must include the windows support costs :)
>>
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