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Re:Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus by ipspam on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:59PM (#22639727)
My gas furnace supplies a baseline of heat, and my basement gets topped up with electric heat. What are the mechanics of energy usage for me?

I feel like all energy is converted to heat in my laptop. That would mean free computing power?

Am I missing something? Can energy be converted to a form I am overlooking with computational work?

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Re:Folding@home now has 400k users fighting coronavirus by sn7408 on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:38PM (#22640239)
All heat from your electronics (CPUs&GPUs) are waste heat, you could replace your electric heater with a computer to get "free computing power".
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