Electricity woes & my last WU's

It appears that electricity costs have finally taken their toll and is forcing me to stop DC'ing. We recieved an electricity bill of £300 ($600) today and it means our whole family are going to have to make cut backs.

This means that from this day forward my machines are cleaning out the remainder of WU's assigned to them and being shutdown.

I will keep my BOINC's installed in case i ever decide to run for a while but it'll never be like it was before (24/7)

I hope you have enjoyed me being part of the AMD User's team and will be glad to crunch for this team again, should the time come. :sad5:

Best Regards
Evil-Dragon (Matthew)

That £300 a quarter?

Thats fairly steep. 4 of us in this house and we've paid a quarter bill of £200.

Good luck anyhow :)

how is most of the electricity produced over there on that little island?

Sad to see you go buddy, take it easy.

NVM - a mixture of non-renewable (coal) & renewable (wind), nuclear and gas-to-energy (landfill)

My combined gas and electric comes to £300 a quarter. It keeps rising every year:(.

You'll be a great loss to the crunching community, especially AMD Users.

If you ever have a machine turned on, pop in and say hello.

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Originally Posted by spikey_richie

NVM - a mixture of non-renewable (coal) & renewable (wind), nuclear and gas-to-energy (landfill)

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Coal, Gas (As in from North Sea), Nuclear,Renewable... Mainly in that order I do believe.

The landfill option is fairly rare..
Mind when I'm at home in Devon, theres a fair few renewable options about..Wind power (mainly Cornwall), tidal power (huge underwater turbine off the coast of Lynmouth), farmyard waste (burning cow sh*t to produce heat for the water..smell around the place is a bit iffy:icon_lol: ), renewable burning (fast growing wood etc) and geothermal. Not bad for a little county:)

I wish you the best.

Every bird must go to roost sometime. Hope to see you back soon.

Reminds me of the early on-line days - paying $6.00 per hour to be online and long distance phone fees. I knew many with significant debits to Master Card and Lord Visa.

Best wishes to you. I totally understand where you are at.

While we pay monthly where I live in the US, my equiv quarterly bill varies from US $925 to $1175 a quarter depending on the time of year. The electrical rate keeps increasing here, along with all the constant additions in utility taxes. So for people that are really in to the computer scene, it is becoming rather expensive to play.

I saw a tagline on one of my 4x4 bbs forums that went to the effect of:
Putting money into jeeps is like doing crack..... it takes an intervention to quit both. I think this distributed computing thing is in the same category.

Good luck to you and take care. Been nice crunching with you!
:)

Sorry to hear you go.:( You will always be welcome here.

Sorry to hear Mattew. Thanks to the warm winter in Sweden our electrical bill has decrease. We use waterpower, nuclear and wind power here.

Thank you for your contribution. You has done much good for AMDusers, don´t forget that.

Take care and welcome back.:(

I understand that Sweden has, as a percentage, more renewable energy generation than any other nation. Eventually they will be at a point where fossil fuels will be the "alternative" energy source.

Locally I spend about $65 per month on average for electricity. My last bill (December) was $69.27 for the month for 880KWH usage. In November my bill was $58.32. I benefit from low $$/KWH costs and the fact that I live alone - and very frugally.

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Originally Posted by drezha

Coal, Gas (As in from North Sea), Nuclear,Renewable... Mainly in that order I do believe.

The landfill option is fairly rare..
Mind when I'm at home in Devon, theres a fair few renewable options about..Wind power (mainly Cornwall), tidal power (huge underwater turbine off the coast of Lynmouth), farmyard waste (burning cow sh*t to produce heat for the water..smell around the place is a bit iffy:icon_lol: ), renewable burning (fast growing wood etc) and geothermal. Not bad for a little county:)

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You'll be surprised how many Gas-to-Energy sites there are in the UK. All of the major landfill operators have a number of G2E sites, including Viridor, Sita, Biffa, Onyx, Cleanaway and Summerleaze. Cleanaway are slowly filling the thames estuary (sp) with rubbish, which will become one of Europe's largest G2E sites.

Can you tell I used to work for a company that manufactures Landfill Gas Analysers? :P

Evil Dragon I myself will miss your energetic motivation in your projects and wonder how we will handle the fort while your gone. You will be missed my friend. This hurts inside, coming from you, one of our strongest and devoted crunchers, you will be deeply missed. Stop in once awhile and say howdy. :(:-(

Sorry to hear of the electricity problems, my bill runs over $200 per month and sometimes 300. I heat with a pellet stove and electricity runs the hot tub, one heater in the bed room, swimming pool in the summer,window unit air conditioning in the summer, and the usual appliances, plus two to three computers. Good luck Matthew and I hope you can return soon !!!

Wow... This sounds all to familiar... I had this same problem a few months ago... I had to make some personal sacrifices to continue crunching... I wish you all the best buddy. Don't forget to pop in and say hello every once in a while...

Sorry to hear you're leaving us. It has been a pleasure crunching with you at AMD Users. We'll miss you. Try to login when you can just to stay in touch. Best wishes :icon_wink:

Sorry to see you go. Our eletric rates are pretty low (4.5 cents/kwh), so we pay 80/month year round. However, since I live in the sticks everything else is nearly double.