Welcome to mbotmiller. Stop by and say few words.
Cheers

Thanks for the welcome Sgt. Joe and nice to meet all the Minnesota Crunchers out there! I've been contributing to World Community Grid for a number of years, but haven't been tuned into the forums very much before the last couple of months when I did a little data gathering to share in a thread in the hardware forum about the Apple Silicon M1 chip. I grew up in Minnesota and while I'm currently living outside the state, I'm still a Minnesotan at heart : )

I'm a big fan of science, clean energy, and moving towards more electrification where it makes sense (transport, heating and cooling with efficient heat pumps, etc.) I have a ~9.4 kW solar array that helps power my crunching activities and I love measuring the efficiency of different computing setups and have several kill-a-watt meters that I'm generally measuring something with in my spare time.

On a more technical note, I currently have a total of 36 Intel cores from seven different consumer CPUs and a single Apple M1 chip with 4 performance cores that I'm contributing to WCG research. Looking forward to contributing my small part to the Minnesota Crunchers team and the research projects here on WCG!

Sure thing - happy to. My array has 29 REC panels that are rated at 325W each ( https://usa.recgroup.com/sites/default/files/...ak_black_series_en_us.pdf ) for a total array size of 9.425 kW. My inverter is a 10,000W SolarEdge SE10000H-US ( https://www.solaredge.com/sites/default/files...h-setapp-datasheet-na.pdf ) It is a roof-mounted array on my house and the panels are directionally facing ~210 degrees (South-Southwest) at a ~40 degree tilt angle. My neighbors have a few tall trees that shade parts of the array in the later fall, winter, and early spring when the sun’s path is lower in the sky (fortunately most of that time the trees don’t have their leaves) and the array also is shaded by trees during the summer in the evening from ~5:30PM until sunset.

The upfront cost to the solar installer was $26,900. Several things brought that cost down quite a bit though: a 26% federal tax credit, a fluke 4% cash back credit card offer that I had going on at the time (and a solar installer willing to accept credit cards as a payment method), and a $6,000 utility rebate. The payback period will be about 12 years.

The installation was finished in November of 2020 so I don’t have a lot of direct data yet on this array. I’m expecting the array to produce ~8,900 - 9,500 kWh annually and the best single production day thus far was about a week ago at 37 kWh.

Thanks Bearcat - looking forward to continuing contributing with the team!

Thanks for the heads up on that FlynRyan - that's a great idea while we're waiting for the OPN GPU work to kick off here. I just put a GTX 1050 TI and RTX 3060 TI into service on Folding@Home today and joined the team you shared - nice to see some familiar names there. It's been a little while since I've done any GPU crunching so will be fun to see how that goes.

Evening...

There is some public data about Sputnic, cannot say how reliable or any but interesting for sure..
They seems to change vector between shots, think carrying idea is that human could learn to resist adeno-virus.

https://sputnikvaccine.com/upload/iblock/8a6/...13f2460eb6769504276c9.pdf