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[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

~~25W still adds up. General rule of thumb is to add a zero to the wattage to get the cost to run it for a year. I don't want to spend $250 a year letting my computer idle.~~

I definitely misremembered things

[–] TaTTe@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's some hella expensive electricity you're buying there. I'm getting mine at 14 cents/kWh, which is roughly 1.2€/W per year. This isn't even close to the cheapest option available.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You know what, you're right. Idk what the fuck I was thinking. I must have misremembered the math from the last time I did it.

I swear I did the math like a year ago and it added up, but that's clearly a false memory. It's closer to $1 per watt per year. I downvoted my own comment

[–] TaTTe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It could've been closer to the truth in 2022. At least in Europe when the energy prices skyrocketed I think I paid closer to 1€/kWh.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe it was 2022. Working from home has fucked my perception of time.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here in California our utility keeps burning down entire towns so now we pay $.60-$.70 per kW/h. It’s insane. They still don’t maintain infrastructure, they just pass on the cost of lawsuits.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sheesh, we went from .129 to .189 and I got rooftop solar in protest (which is only going to burn my own house down).

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Yea rooftop solar here got so popular because of the pricing which means they decided to cut the rates that they will pay you for generation. So in the same instant they will charge you $.70 to draw power but only give you $.12 for power fed back in during the same time period.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That calculation only makes sense if you never shut down your computer, instead of only when you accidentally hit "restart" and need to go right away.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people leave their computers running 24/7, though. The TLC said the power draw would be small, so I just wanted to point out that what might look like a negligible amount of power can add up to be more than youd expect.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago

That's not really what's being discussed here, though. There's a big difference between doing it all the time and only doing it once in a blue moon.