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My father has a small house in southern Spain. There's no grid so we put loads of solar panels (8kW). In summer, there's plenty of energy.

I have installed 3 servers (a "normal" tower PC + graphic card) running Boinc. A small timer powers on the PCs at 10, and powers them off at ~17h. Once up, they start folding and calculating for Folding@Home or WorldCommunityGrid.

I don't earn any money from it, but I like the fact that I'm contributing to science

I’m so glad you didn’t say mining crypto.

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