Today's Numbers: Get 'Em While They're Hot!

[SiGfever]

Very good point and as to your wife tell her I said thanks for her patience with what we do and give her a big hug from me.
I do know that the electric part can be a killer but my heart and head tells me that if we can cut the timeframe by a couple years until the cures are found then all the expense has been worthwhile.
Time is the enemy here and why our top machines can make so much difference.
Along with this I spend a lot of time keeping up with the latest advances in solar and wind electrical generation hoping to find a reasonably priced way to offset the electric we use.

Well said my friend.

[=[PULSAR]=]

Dave I bike somewhere around 30km/day if you want to come up with some kind of bike driven generator I'll sit my ass on it and peddle for a cure

[SiGfever]

Dave I bike somewhere around 30km/day if you want to come up with some kind of bike driven generator I'll sit my ass on it and peddle for a cure

http://mattshaver.com/bikegen/index.htm

http://www.pedalpowergenerator.com/

http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/pedgen.html

http://www.google.com/search?client=...=Google+Search

[SMTB1963]

Very good point and as to your wife tell her I said thanks for her patience with what we do and give her a big hug from me.

You know I was kidding, right? The wife is actually ok with it now. I was finally able to give her a succinct explanation of DC/WCG, and she responded with "...finally there's a good use for all that crap you buy" I was so taken aback, I started talking to her about XS, BOINCStats, dual/quad socket MBs - her eyes glazed over and she quickly left the room.

I do know that the electric part can be a killer but my heart and head tells me that if we can cut the timeframe by a couple years until the cures are found then all the expense has been worthwhile.
Time is the enemy here and why our top machines can make so much difference.

True that. We've both lost close family to cancer and friends to AIDS and -since this time of year the electric bill is through the roof anyways - the extra ~500W from crunching is a drop in the bucket. Certainly not trivial, but not a problem for us. Small price to pay.

Along with this I spend a lot of time keeping up with the latest advances in solar and wind electrical generation hoping to find a reasonably priced way to offset the electric we use.

Solar, huh? We've got plenty of that around here. Ever think of sharing some of that knowledge with an XS forum dedicated to the subject?

[MrMojoZ]

Solar, huh? We've got plenty of that around here. Ever think of sharing some of that knowledge with an XS forum dedicated to the subject?

Think he summed it up as too damn expensive atm.

[Movieman]

You know I was kidding, right? The wife is actually ok with it now. I was finally able to give her a succinct explanation of DC/WCG, and she responded with "...finally there's a good use for all that crap you buy" I was so taken aback, I started talking to her about XS, BOINCStats, dual/quad socket MBs - her eyes glazed over and she quickly left the room.



True that. We've both lost close family to cancer and friends to AIDS and -since this time of year the electric bill is through the roof anyways - the extra ~500W from crunching is a drop in the bucket. Certainly not trivial, but not a problem for us. Small price to pay.



Solar, huh? We've got plenty of that around here. Ever think of sharing some of that knowledge with an XS forum dedicated to the subject?

1) Still give her that hug from me. She's a "keeper"
2) Solar: Still very expensive to do a complete system that will cover say 3000 KWH/Month usage BUT I'm beginning to think the way to approach this is not to see a $80,000.00 cost for a full system BUT maybe to drop acouple grand for a small one and then add in as money allows.
Benefit of that approach is your getting some benefit now, and the $$ saved can be tucked away to buy more panels every now and then..
Sort of nibble away at the elec cost inch by inch if that makes any sense.
IE:Let the first say 4-6 panel system generate the money to add a couple more panels in 6-12 months,etc,etc,the more panels, the more saved for more panels without having to take a 2nd mortgage to buy an entire system.
Also when done this way your panels will have different "ages" and won't need to be replaced all at once as they lose effectiveness over the years.
Say start with 6-200wpanels,an inverter and go from there BUT lay it out on the roof with aplan of adding a few more each year.
Make sense?

[Angmaar]

9M is good for a holiday weekend.

[MrMojoZ]

Make sense?

Would also allow you to take advantage of newer technology as it hit the scene, as long as it could integrated into your current setup.

[Movieman]

Would also allow you to take advantage of newer technology as it hit the scene, as long as it could integrated into your current setup.

Correct and since new tech should/would be in the panels themselves and not in the electrical connections they ahould be "backwards compatible"
I'm going to make a thread on this to keep this one a bit cleaner/..

[Jaco]

1) Still give her that hug from me. She's a "keeper"
2) Solar: Still very expensive to do a complete system that will cover say 3000 KWH/Month usage BUT I'm beginning to think the way to approach this is not to see a $80,000.00 cost for a full system BUT maybe to drop acouple grand for a small one and then add in as money allows.
Benefit of that approach is your getting some benefit now, and the $$ saved can be tucked away to buy more panels every now and then..
Sort of nibble away at the elec cost inch by inch if that makes any sense.
IE:Let the first say 4-6 panel system generate the money to add a couple more panels in 6-12 months,etc,etc,the more panels, the more saved for more panels without having to take a 2nd mortgage to buy an entire system.
Also when done this way your panels will have different "ages" and won't need to be replaced all at once as they lose effectiveness over the years.
Say start with 6-200wpanels,an inverter and go from there BUT lay it out on the roof with aplan of adding a few more each year.
Make sense?

I have had the same idea for a while ... there must be a way of building a solar system gradually.
I'd even start with 2 panels

[Anarki]

You can blame me for a lack of 40,000 points as I was away at the weekend and both my crunchers decided to crash

[D_A]

Just get your installer to oversize the inverter unit, then as you add more panels later your production won't outstrip your conversion capacity.

[Mydog]

Where did everyone go?? No body want to post today's number?
Well here it is

10,270,065

[sRHunt3r]

You can blame me for a lack of 40,000 points as I was away at the weekend and both my crunchers decided to crash

That's always the worst feeling, glad your up and running again ...... diggin' your avatar as well

Back into the 10 mill range , but I'm still down a bit as my pendings have doubled over the past 2 days

[Movieman]

Where did everyone go?? No body want to post today's number?
Well here it is

10,270,065

That's always the worst feeling, glad your up and running again ...... diggin' your avatar as well

Back into the 10 mill range , but I'm still down a bit as my pendings have doubled over the past 2 days

Lots of people away and they shut down their machines plus all the office machines that are down.
My "pending validation" is WAAAAY up..
Just "money in the bank"..Will validate later this week.
Suggestion:
When you "go away".. Turn down the machines 200-300mhz..

[Snow Crash]

Lots of people away and they shut down their machines plus all the office machines that are down.
My "pending validation" is WAAAAY up..
Just "money in the bank"..Will validate later this week.
Suggestion:
When you "go away".. Turn down the machines 200-300mhz..but leave them running

fixed

[Movieman]

fixed

Yup!

[D_A]

Back over 11 Mil

11,091,364

[sRHunt3r]

Movin' on up, to the top !!!! (singing The Jefferson's theme song)

GJ Team

[Movieman]

Back over 11 Mil

11,091,364

[Lu523]

Way to go team. I am working on my clocks to battle the heat. Once temps cool down I should be able to do more.

[werdwerdus]

I turned on FAAH a couple days ago for my non-linux machines, so my pendings are way down!

[Angmaar]

Xs: 10,737,124

[slaveondope]

Xs: 10,737,124

Not bad at all Im still missing 35k but I'll be there in a day or two

Good job everyone EasyNews is going

[sRHunt3r]

XtremeSystems : 10,426,873

Still down a bit but 10 mill is nothing to sneeze at GJ Team