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When I am playing a game, my computer's power consumption increases by a lot. I am using more energy and ultimately generating more entropy in the universe. Is
by outworlder 8y ago
When I am playing a game, my computer's power consumption increases by a lot. I am using more energy and ultimately generating more entropy in the universe. Is it worth it?
- King-Aaron 8y agoDepends on the game.
- Izkata 8y agoWhile this was almost certainly a joke, to the downvoters: Did you know about Foldit [0], the protein-folding game that actually contributes to scientific research? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldit
- King-Aaron 8y agoPrecisely what I was getting at :) http://www.eternagame.org/web/ http://www.eternagame.org/web/ https://eyewire.org/explore https://eyewire.org/explore https://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/ https://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/
- thecrazyone 8y ago> Depends on the game. lol > When I am playing a game, my computer's power consumption increases by a lot. I am using more energy and ultimately generating more entropy in the universe. Is it worth it? Yup, that's the right answer to a collectivist sentiment. Value is subjective
- RugnirViking 8y agoYour computer's power consumption increases by a lot - so much in fact it might hit it's cpu and gpu rated max wattage - perhaps 300 watts in all for a high-power PC. A kettle uses around on average 1800 watts while on. Washing machine is 700 watts. On the scale of home gadgets, a fairly beefy home PC is only really in the middle of the pack for power consumption.