OK, so our old fixed tariff ran out last month, just as I was getting into stride at >50 million PPD. Just seen the new bill, over £700 a month at current usage I was expecting it to be high as we're already a pretty high-usage household (was on about £280/month before, on a very favourable fixed rate), but that is crazy. Over half of the energy use in the house is folding. I can't sustain this and look SWMBO in the eye, so, as I had kind of predicted, I'm going to have to scale it right back to a single card, just sooner than I thought. Once energy prices return to something resembling normality, I'll see where I'm at.
Part of me really fears this is the new normal... Like VAT being 'temporarily' increased to 20% in 2008...
Managed to clear in excess of £3,000 from selling the cards very quickly mind, which certainly covers the overage on my bill! The bad news for the team is that the only cards I have left now are a pair of 1650 Supers in the kids' PCs, and a 1050 and GT 730 in my two (I game on PS5 currently). I'll be back once sanity prevails!
Not sure sanity has prevailed (or will ever!), but I noticed you've added some extra electrical heating to your house this last week ... Welcome back.
Lol, I'm waiting for an oil delivery so thought I'd spin up a little space heater It also always troubled me that I'd stopped short of 10bn!
Got an email from our electricity provider, saying that there was a better electricity tariff that we could be on that would save us money... Log on to their website, take a look at their tariffs, and notice that their recommended "cheap" tariff would actually work out to cost £50 more each month. This is obviously some kind of bespoke energy provider maths which explains how British Gas managed to multiply its profits by 10 times...
They have 'special' calculators I have been with some of the energy companies that are no more, and when Ofgem moved me to a new provider with 'preferential rates', guaranteed it was more expensive than any of the other tarriffs the new provider offered(!) ... oh, and they would not let you switch to any other tarriff! Learnt quickly after the first time it happened - so, second time, I moved supplier the same day I heard the news break about the company going under. Now, with the current energy market, everyone is shafted ... well, in the UK we are anyway.
Happy New Year to everyone Like a lot of you I was taken aback with the increase in electricity prices early in the year and had to do some thinking. I turned off one of the PCs and let freecycle have many of the parts. I sold GPUs and replaced them with one 4070ti which is producing about 13m a day depending on what else I use the remaining PC for. With it being so cold I have persuaded the boss it is cheaper for me to keep the pc running in my man cave than have the heating on around the house. This will come to an end this week when we fly to warmer climes for 6 weeks, so you will see my numbers go to zero for that period. On return I might be confined to only folding when I am using the pc in the evening for genealogy. Can't see energy prices reducing anytime this year.
Yep, electricity prices are pretty painful these days, so its understandable to re-assess. Enjoy your 6-weeks in the sun though!
I've started folding at the office and at home. Office as that PC needs to stay on anyway and home when It's idle to keep my office warm. I'm not doing too bad https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=758924
