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Zarathustra[H];1041604470 said:Wow your power is dirt cheap. Is that the fully loaded rate with generation transmission and all fees and taxes? Mine is almost 3 times as much
Zarathustra[H];1041604257 said:Why?
I'd MUCH rather have a single 300W GPU than two 250W GPU's pulling a total of 500W
heck, I'd take a single 400W GPU over two 250W GPU's.
It's the total that matters. Nothing else.
Zarathustra[H];1041604517 said:Yeah this happens a lot in the south in the U.S. Electricity rates are kept ridiculously low through a combination of lax regulation and low environmental standards resulting in massive coal use and hydraulic fracturing to unsafely pull up previously unreachable natural gas. In some cases there are even subsidies through tax exemptions and credits, (which is amusing on its own, because the right leaning south tends to be opposed to this sort of thing) because if rates went up there would be an absolute revolt, and doing anything to be seen as raising those rates could be political suicide.
All of this is because of air conditioning. It's no coincidence that the rebirth and rise in population of the south happened at the same time as the availability of reasonably cheap air conditioning in the 70's. Before then you'd have to be crazy to live down there
Central air conditioning running on full blast 24/7 is the norm in many places, and even at these silly stupid low prices of 8c/kWh many people pay so much for their electrical bill due to AC that nothing else is even really noticeable in the bill.
Just like overuse of water leading to drought in California, by people living in places that are mostly inhospitable to human beings and instead over-using resources, we are doing the same with electricity and air conditioning in the south.
And because of this we as a nation are hooked on coal. Cheap, dirty, carcinogenic disgusting coal.
...and those with a vested interest in the coal industry are even running propaganda ads on TV here speaking to the benefits of "clean coal" which is a hilarious complete oxymoron, at the same time as they are dodging complaints about safety violations in their mines, refusing to pay fines and manipulating the political process to sweep it under the rug.
Welcome to America, land of the free
Zarathustra[H];1041604522 said:That is pretty hilarious. They are incentivizing you to use MORE power not less
Here the first 750kWh per month are at the base rate, and every kWh above that gets you charged at the high use penalty rate, which is higher (though not significantly so).
It's funny how some things are very different between the north and south.
For instance, I don't know a single person up here with central air. Never seen it in any non-office building. We do get sticky humid summers in the 90's (and sometimes into the 100's) but people use window units when it gets bad, and otherwise just deal with it
On the other hand, we need to burn a lot of fuel to heat things up in the winter. For a ~2,100 sq ft single family home this winter, my average gas bill was between $250 and $300, and we have pretty decent insulation. It was a cold one this year.
Any cost difference between your computations can be accounted for by the price of that fancy "L" for Pound. I can't afford to buy a keyboard with one of those.
£££ (I only know this because I handled support for UK customers. )
Any cost difference between your computations can be accounted for by the price of that fancy "L" for Pound. I can't afford to buy a keyboard with one of those.
I like my keyboard to have it written out e.g. £ibras which is even more expensive. I also demand shilling (/-) and guinea (gn) symbols on my keyboards for when the occasion arises. I also expect the keyboard's documentation to describe my pound sign as a "hash"
The rumor is from a few days ago, already been discussed.
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