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Re: [LUG] Yay us !! (F@H)

 

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 13:25 +0000, Rob Beard wrote:

> Can someone explain to me what the benefits of this are, apart from the 
> obvious heating your house with PCs (and PS3's) running Folding at Home?
> 
> Doesn't seem very green to me 

It is very green if your power (and even more so if everyone else's
electricity) comes from fission, but your heating otherwise comes from
coal, oil or gas (or even wood, since that would become available to
displace someone else off non-carbon-neutral heating fuels).





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