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How Does Bill Nye Say a Maine Gamer Should Offset a Power-hungry Computer?

Caller Randy Houston, in Maine, asks Science Rules with Bill Nye how to offset the electricity of a powerful gaming PC. Nye separates that from mining selenium, gallium, and germanium for chips, and notes there is no shortage of silicon because sand is everywhere. Randy already has solar panels and, from spring almost to the holidays, makes more electricity than he uses. Nye's advice is to install solar if you can, or buy green electricity from wind and solar. Maine's wind, Randy says, comes off the Katahdin range. Nye also floats tidal power and geothermal. Randy's city-building games, set in 2070, run those cities on solar panels.

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