November 9, 20223 yr So, due to the energy crisis my provider charges 0.84 cents per kWh electricity nowadays here in the Netherlands I have a 1000 Watt power supply for an 5800X3D with RTX3090 ..... Does that mean a 2 hour flight will cost me nearly 2 euro's in real money? If so, I'll be using the simulation speed x2 or x4 more often i think. Antoine v Heck --- Ryzen 5800X3D, 32Gb DDR4 RAM@1600 Mhz, RTX3090 (24GB VRAM). 2TB SSD - VR with Quest 2 via link cable
November 9, 20223 yr Having a 1000W power supply doesn't mean that you're actually using 1000 watts. It's a capacity rating, meaning that it can provide up to 1000 watts of power. You'd have to add up the average power consumption of all your hardware components to determine how much you'll spend per hour. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
November 10, 20223 yr We pay 7 cents a kWh. Down river from a hydroelectric dam. Or near the ocean, we all could pay a member of the Royal family to bullwhip the waves like King Canute did. At least try and make those obey! "I see I'm being beaten. How I sympathize with King Canute"... 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
November 10, 20223 yr Just as a comparison, we pay 34 pence per KWH in the UK, about 39 cents, and that's only because it's been subsidised by the state, without government help, it would be around 50 pence per KWH, about 57 cents. Be curious as to what people pay per KWH in other countries? UK gas is 10 pence per KWH. Eugene Edited November 10, 20223 yr by Overload Formatting
November 10, 20223 yr We pay 12c/KWh, plus a base charge of $15 a month in Alabama. All of the power in my area comes from a nuclear plant 50 miles away, but most of the state gets its electricity from natural gas power plants. Rates per KWh in the USA go from a low of about 10c/KWh to as high as 20c/KWh, excluding Hawaii. The average natural gas price in the USA is about $25/MWh, or $6 per million BTUs. I was surprised that Europe's electricity prices are so high, as Europe has been promoting renewable energy for decades. Yet when you look at the data, as I have done, you see that most countries in Europe still get most of their electricity from natural gas and coal-fired power plants. Nuclear is the next largest source, and that's mostly in France. Only about 20% comes from wind and solar, even after 25 years of green energy initiatives. You'd have to triple the number of wind turbines just to reach the amount of electricity produced by coal and natural gas. Anyway, when you look at the actual electricity sources, it is clear why the prices have skyrocketed. Dave Simulator: P3Dv6.1 System Specs: Intel i7 13700K CPU, MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk Motherboard, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Video Card, 3x 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 2280 SSDs, Windows 11 Home OS My website for P3D stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/thep3dfiles/home
November 10, 20223 yr An instant snapshot of the UK's energy generation at 1700 GMT, shows 37% fossil fuels (36% gas 1% coal), 47% renewables (45% wind, 2% hydroelectric, no solar, it's dark!), 23% other types of generation, mostly nuclear at 13%, biomass 7%, were also exporting 9% of our production to Belgium, France, and Holland, via underwater interconnectors. Nearly half renewables, not bad. Eugene
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