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Not discussed: electric bills!
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
Not discussed: electric bills!
- blinded 2y agoCame here to say this. I power down mine when I'm not using it. edit: silly typo!
- bombcar 2y agoStrange, I power mine when I’m using it.
- tiagod 2y agoIt was discussed in the video. The OP's electricity is paid by the landlord :P
- hy4000days 2y ago[dead]
- zten 2y agoYeah… I stopped doing stable horde after admitting my electric rate was never going down, and it’s already about 55 cents per kWh. I try to put as many electric things to sleep or off now.
- TechDebtDevin 2y agoWhere tf do you live that you're paying that much. You should move if possible!
- volkadav 2y agoThe UK can get pretty rude, for example. ~40p/kWh is not unheard of for residential. (Natural gas price shocks, unfettered greed post-privatization, badgers in the transformers, idkwtf, etc.)
- moepstar 2y agoYes, true. I, after all those years, can finally understand my dad coming into my room, yelling at me due to the electrical bill. Couldn't understand, only was running Seti@Home 24/7 on my Pentium 4 :D
- UltraSane 2y agoAnd heat and noise.
- the_third_wave 2y agoJust add one more solar panel and your server is powered. This assumes you can sell excess production at wholesale rates (like we do here in Sweden). If you can not sell power and you're a tinkerer there's ways to build battery storage which can power both the lab as well as the house using a wide variety of batteries. Used EV batteries are one source, used LiFePO4 standby power supply packs another. This is the way we'll go if/when it is no longer possible to sell excess production. Until such a time well enjoy our negative electricity bills, we have not had a positive bill since installing the PV array even though there's a DL380G7 with a DS4246 storage array running 24/7 under the stairs.