your home computer station uses 100 watts while idiling. You don't like to shut down or put your machines/screens to sleep because it's okder and takes forever to boot up so you can leave it on all the time with a screen saver. Your utility charges you 5.5 cent per kWh, how much will it cost to run the computer fir a year?

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your home computer station uses 100 watts while idiling. You don't like to shut down or put your machines/screens to sleep because it's okder and takes forever to boot up so you can leave it on all the time with a screen saver. Your utility charges you 5.5 cent per kWh, how much will it cost to run the computer fir a year? 

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