Nope (Score 1)

I used to be a supporter of SETI until I realised how much power it consumes.....nothing to do with money, it's all about the environment. It's ironic that we're burning huge amounts of power to look for something which doesn't really have a lot of meaning. Some people believe that finding aliens will totally change religion....maybe it won't, religion has a way of adapting quite well to change. But one thing is for sure....we're adding thousands or millions of tons of emissions to the atmosphere, choking ourselves to do this. An idle PC (P4) consumes around 150Watts (mine does)....running SETI pushes this to 225Watts - so an extra light bulb really. It also encourages us to keep our PC's on for longer so that Johnny's score can be higher than Paul's. But assuming that the PC is on for 12 hours a day, that extra light bulb is a kwh.....in the US that is about 0.6 to 0.7kg of emissions, and in Australia it's much higher at 1kg. OK, a Core2 PC might be idle at 90Watts, but at full bore on SETI it still goes up to around 160Watt, and this is without running the graphical screensaver part too, which will push the power up even more to draw some lines on the screen by the GPU. It's pointless I think. If you want to do this, how about swinging over to one of the more more useful projects so at least it wont be useless.