I agree...7im wrote:I appreciate that most people express concern for the environment.
But I am getting tired of people picking on computers as being wasteful when there are things 100s to 1000s times more wasteful or harmful to the environment.
According to the project's own Wikipedia page, if using the most efficient computers around, the F@H network would use 2.8 megawatts. Accounting for inefficiencies and the power used to transmit WUs over the internet, lets say it uses 20MW. A TGV trainset, developments of which run over the world, normally draws around 10MW. So two TGVs use the same amount of power as the entire F@H network. I think that's actually pretty good value for your 20MW tbh, and these claims against the project, while valid, are overstated...