Reading a previous thread about making a deduction for participating in wcg made me think about extra power consumption.

Substainable development being in many thoughts nowadays I often asked myself the amount of extra energy wcg is responsible for. Not saying this to put a brake on people participating as I don't think it relevant on a personnal scale. But all this people leaving their computer on 24h active in computing instead of being iddle or off must have an impact speaking of 155 years a day.

I'm not good enough in math to make the evaluation even if it can't be other than an evaluation due to heterogeneousness of each unit participating. I'm sure some of you out there can help in giving us an idea of what it represents. Then converting it into money with average energy price could make us realize it has a real strengh that could be used.

So many people don't even know about grid processing some publicity would be appreciated to reach them and it could be of power supplyer interest to do it.