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I must assume I'm wrong in this calculation but 40 watts seems pretty cheap in cost. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40+watts+in+kwh+per+month http://www.w
by sosuke 11y ago
I must assume I'm wrong in this calculation but 40 watts seems pretty cheap in cost. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40+watts+in+kwh+per+month http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40+watts+in+kwh+per+mon... at a 3.3 cents per kWh rate is just under a $1 per month right? On the top tier of my local utility it would still be under $4 per month. http://www.austinenergy.com/wps/portal/ae/rates/residential-rates/residential-electric-rates-and-line-items http://www.austinenergy.com/wps/portal/ae/rates/residential-...
- brandmeyer 11y ago1 W draws about 9 kW-hr/year, so for residential pricing of about 10 c/kW-hr, you get about 1 $/W-yr.
- esaym 11y agoI think most Americans pay between $0.20 and $0.40 per kWh. I am lucky though that here it is only $0.06. But in summer months it goes to $0.14 for every kWh over 600. Staying under 1000 kwh's a month is hard to do.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y ago$.106 and free weekends.
- slavik81 11y agoSpeaking of summer, if you're trying to cool the house with an air conditioner, you can multiply the effective wattage of the computer by 3.
- esaym 11y agoTrue, that is a good point.
- barney54 11y agoThe average price of electricity in the US is $0.13. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cfm?t=epmt_5_6_a https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf... And you would have to be somewhere really remote to pay $0.40.
- oso2k 11y agoIn the U.S. $0.20 per kWhr is a more common rate.
- VLM 11y agoThose prices are an Alaska/Hawaii and New England thing. Everywhere else its pretty cheap. http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
- ryan-c 11y agoIn California, PG&E has tiered pricing such that even a moderate user in the bay area will probably be paying a marginal rate of ~$0.35/kWh.