You can compare both, and find out that they're radically different. seti@home, folding@home, etc. are just about the complete opposite of POW coin mining. Peop

You can compare both, and find out that they're radically different. seti@home, folding@home, etc. are just about the complete opposite of POW coin mining. People supply their computational power while expecting no reward, that's why there are also no seti@home data centers sucking up terawatts of energy.