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This project is like if there was 300 000 TV screens turned on, but only 3000 people actually watching TV. That's my point. Some people would consider 297,000 fewer idiots parked in front of the boob tube to be a great leap for civilization. Others would consider that you could turn off 297 000 TV ...

Based on the above numbers, it would appear the whole project consumes something like 60MW absolute max. Consider the general utility of this project compared with another use for 60MW such as, for example, 300,000 TV screens tuned to Sex and the City. Perfect, you're right. I'll throw away my lith...

So while Wikipedia's statement is 2.8GW/PFLOP i would say 280GW/PFLOP... And the GPGPU initiative is even worse : graphics card consume a LOT of energy when pushed at 100%. Kindly get your facts straight. WIKIPEDIA claims 2.8 MEGAWATTS per petaflop for a PC platform. Right, my mistake it's not 2.8G...

I've already read the Wikipedia tiny lines about energy consumption of F@H, and found it at best funny but mainly ridiculous. It's assumption about power consumption calculation, based on the most efficient computer is irrealistic. His statement is that you could divide the global processing power b...

Could we have a global ernery consumption World Map just to know how much this project does waste in term of energy? Something like : 'USA : 3.2GW' 'Europe : 4.1GW' ... And translate those into, for exemple, nuclear wastes by year? CO2 emittings? Just a thought. Because the way this project works, e...