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[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 134 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Running a GameCube (23 watts) literally nonstop for a year would use a little over 200 kWh.

Assuming average USA electricity prices, in 2002 electricity cost ~$0.09 per kWh, so one year of that would cost an additional $18.00. That number only tends worse going forward.

A GameCube memory card would cost about $11.

As usual, it's more expensive to be poor.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (7 children)

9 cents is probably just generation. I'd expect to pay about the same for delivery.

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, total cost is going to be at least $0.15 USD / kWh, and can be as high as $0.25 USD / kWh. I've lived all over the US and it's never been less than $0.15 USD / kWh.

[–] mephiska@fedia.io 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

paying over $0.40/kWh where I am.

[–] jwu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

San Diego? SDGE is the worst.

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