On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:00:20PM -0400, Shengchao Li wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > Note that electricity is very cheap up here, end-customer price is
> > only about 20-30 öre/KWh, which should be around 2-3 cent/KWh.
> >
> > Otherwise we wouldn't have all those machines ;-)
> 
> Hydropower is cheap... and clean... and safe

unfortunately the water causes vaxen to short out and the salmon
complain.

sweden generates quite a bit of electrity by nuclear reactors.  perhaps
it would be possible to fit a small one into a VAX?  self-powering for
hundreds of years.  perhaps sokolov would be interested.  ;)

here in the pacific northwest US, residential electricity (mostly
hydropower) is close to $0.08/kWh, and I calculated it would cost me
approximately USD $30 a month to run my µVAX-II, assuming it were
drawing its full rated load.  this reminds me I need to build an
amperage load box and calculate how much my hobby is truly costing me.
:)

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