Adding a price tag to Folding@Home
IGN has a feature that attempts to estimate the monetary cost of running Folding@Home on Sony‘s PlayStation 3 for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
They estimate (and it’s a very rough estimate) that given the 200W power consumption of the PS3 that they Stanford University‘s Folding@Home FAQ states, and the Electricity Rate Comparison chart found at the Official Nebraska Government Website, they managed to get these figures…
Get the chart after the Jump.
IGN has a feature that attempts to estimate the monetary cost of running Folding@Home on Sony‘s PlayStation 3 for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
They estimate (and it’s a very rough estimate) that given the 200W power consumption of the PS3 that the Stanford University‘s Folding@Home FAQ states, and the Electricity Rate Comparison chart found at the Official Nebraska Government Website, they managed to get these figures:
| State | Cent/kWh | FAH | |
| #@%!28 5#@%! | Idaho | 4.78 | $6.88 |
| #@%!28 5#@%! | West Virginia | 5.09 | $7.33 |
| #@%!28 5#@%! | Wyoming | 5.32 | $7.66 |
| #@%!285#@%! | Oklahoma | 5.48 | $7.89 |
| #@%!285#@%! | Utah | 5.5 | $7.92 |
| 6 | North Dakota | 5.54 | $7.98 |
| 7 | Nebraska | 5.59 | $8.05 |
| 8 | Kentucky | 5.62 | $8.09 |
| 9 | Missouri | 5.7 | $8.21 |
| 10 | Kansas | 5.86 | $8.44 |
| 11 | Indiana | 6.33 | $9.12 |
| 12 | Iowa | 6.36 | $9.16 |
| 13 | South Dakota | 6.4 | $9.22 |
| 14 | Virginia | 6.63 | $9.55 |
| 15 | Arkansas | 6.64 | $9.56 |
| 16 | Alabama | 6.66 | $9.59 |
| 17 | Minnesota | 6.67 | $9.60 |
| 18 | Illinois | 6.69 | $9.63 |
| 19 | Washington | 6.76 | $9.73 |
| 20 | Oregon | 6.85 | $9.86 |
| 21 | Mississippi | 7.06 | $10.17 |
| 22 | Montana | 7.08 | $10.20 |
| 23 | Tennessee | 7.08 | $10.20 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 7.09 | $10.21 |
| 25 | Colorado | 7.15 | $10.30 |
| 26 | New Mexico | 7.16 | $10.31 |
| 27 | Georgia | 7.31 | $10.53 |
| 28 | Louisiana | 7.45 | $10.73 |
| 29 | Ohio | 7.49 | $10.79 |
| 30 | North Carolina | 7.57 | $10.90 |
| 31 | Arizona | 7.64 | $11.00 |
| 32 | Wisconsin | 8.08 | $11.64 |
| 33 | Pennsylvania | 8.44 | $12.15 |
| 34 | Michigan | 8.46 | $12.18 |
| National Average | 8.49 | $12.23 | |
| 35 | Nevada | 9.39 | $13.52 |
| 36 | Texas | 9.56 | $13.77 |
| 37 | Delaware | 10.12 | $14.57 |
| 38 | Maryland | 10.24 | $14.75 |
| 39 | Florida | 10.33 | $14.88 |
| 40 | District of Columbia | 10.75 | $15.48 |
| 41 | Vermont | 11.38 | $16.39 |
| 42 | New Jersey | 11.47 | $16.52 |
| 43 | California | 12.17 | $17.52 |
| 44 | New York | 13.07 | $18.82 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 13.16 | $18.95 |
| 46 | Maine | 13.32 | $19.18 |
| 47 | Alaska | 13.47 | $19.40 |
| 48 | New Hampshire | 13.99 | $20.15 |
| 49 | Massachusetts | 15.24 | $21.95 |
| 50 | Connecticut | 15.98 | $23.01 |
| 51 | Hawaii | 19.28 | $27.76 |
So that’s State, then cost in cents per Kilowatt Hour, and then the cost of running Folkding@Home for a whole month straight. As costly as this may seem to some, think of this as a nice way of distributing the cost of Cancer research. The expenditure is definitely worth the cause. Of course, we now wonder about all those environmentalists and their concerns over the PS3’s resource consumption and how it contributes to global warming.
Via IGN