You just might be addicted to GIMPS if [SPOILER]you wake up in a cold sweat at the midnight hour after an excruciating nightmare that an applied statistician made a breakthrough in your beloved logical number theory with hypothesis testing on a bunch of numbers.[/SPOILER]

[QUOTE=drkirkby;584279]the police raid your house looking for a cannabis factory, suspecting you have one due to the amount of heat being generated.
[/QUOTE]
Or, on the input side;
your electric utility contacts you about your high usage level and suggests time-of-use billing in place of flat-rate, after inquiring whether your home is still being used as a residence, or has been converted to an energy intensive business.
[spoiler](Well, one could theoretically have revenue from prime-discovery prizes...)[/spoiler]
The nearest utility distribution transformer hums. Loudly. Noticeably more loudly than a few years ago. After the utility company replaced it. Possibly with a larger-rated unit.

Or if you imagine your numerous voluminous statistical numerology postings have any influence whatsoever on any other GIMPSter's sleep patterns.

I also used no natural gas last month.

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if having 1,000,000,000,000.555 GHz Days is more rewarding for you than finding M52.

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;624915]I also used no natural gas last month.[/QUOTE]

Cool. :tu:

Just out of interest, what was the Generation source of your Electrical? I presume you are not doing self-solar nor wind. But... As a function of where I /believe/ you are you have a lot of hydro (read: gravity) opportunities for electron generation.

I find some amusement in this. Heating Human spaces using compute can actually be more carbon neutral than burning gas.

And, beyond the risk of electrocution, a bit safer from a CO perspective... 9^)

My apologies if the immediate above was a little over the top... The entire country of Barbados lost power yesterday.

Great fun...

[QUOTE=chalsall;627897]Cool. :tu:

Just out of interest, what was the Generation source of your Electrical? I presume you are not doing self-solar nor wind. But... As a function of where I /believe/ you are you have a lot of hydro (read: gravity) opportunities for electron generation.

I find some amusement in this. Heating Human spaces using compute can actually be more carbon neutral than burning gas.

And, beyond the risk of electrocution, a bit safer from a CO perspective... 9^)[/quote]

I'm wired to the grid. In Oilberta it's [URL="http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServlet"]mostly combined cycle natural gas[/URL] at this point. They are building gigawatts more solar (soon to have more than any other province), but the available hydro is mostly tapped out.

[quote]
My apologies if the immediate above was a little over the top... The entire country of Barbados lost power yesterday.

Great fun...[/QUOTE]

It's shocking how bad the grid is there. I thought it was a wealthy country.

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if your trial factoring [SPOILER]is the reason for your wealthy country to lose power[/SPOILER].

You just might be addicted to GIMPS if your computer farm has interfered with a war effort:
[url]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/28/energy-hungry-tiktok-data-centre-ukraine-ammunition-production-nammo-norway[/url]

[quote]
One of Europe’s largest ammunition manufacturers has said efforts to meet surging demand from the war in Ukraine have been stymied by a [i]GIMPS cruncher[/i] who is monopolising electricity in the region close to its biggest factory.

The chief executive of Nammo, which is co-owned by the Norwegian government, said a planned expansion of its largest factory in central Norway hit a roadblock due to a lack of surplus energy, with the construction of [i]the cruncher's[/i] new data centre using up electricity in the local area.

“We are concerned because we see our future growth is challenged by the [i]search of prime numbers[/i],” Morten Brandtzæg told the Financial Times.[/quote]
[spoiler]the italicized part has been changed, but it might not be too far off the truth...[/spoiler]

[QUOTE=Mark Rose;627907]I'm wired to the grid. In Oilberta it's [URL="http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServlet"]mostly combined cycle natural gas[/URL] at this point. They are building gigawatts more solar (soon to have more than any other province), but the available hydro is mostly tapped out.[/QUOTE]

Interesting to see another Albertan here, glad to see someone from my province is just as nerdy as I am!