I am curious.  Anyone have any sources for figures estimating gross annual energy consumption of all clients performing Folding At Home?  Rough estimates are fine.
 
When I looked from the official source, it was quite useless.  It pretty much said 'not much' and that 'a CPU typically consumes 60 watts'.  Ha

https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_list.php?s=
 
 
for some load calculations: 10 GPU - OC - 24/7 on 5 PC
 
I use about 4000 Watts load x 24 hr = 96 kWh day ---> to produce 20 million PPD (point per day) [10 series & 20 series GPU]
 
=  ~ 208.33 point per kWh consumed
 
         - for profit folding probably use less power
         - old hardware probably uses more power
         - CPU folding much more power consumed
 

I'm not going to Add all the points All the Teams make ...24hr average
 
 

I'm having a hard time interpreting an answer.

(Add all the points All the Teams 24 hr avg make / 208.33 point per kWh consumed) x365 = answer

Jeez! That much?!? Is it worth it?!? Have there been any significant breakthroughs?

All electric heating in my area so folding heats the house  in winter ( my major folding times )
 
I even swap to older old  lights in winter to save on LED 5-10 year bulbs that only last one year.
 
 
I guess new computers need a Flops per watt ( BTU)  rating :-)
 

FTU's
Folding Thermal Units
Works for me
3300 WU's to heat my basement this winter.

Cordorb
All electric heating in my area so folding heats the house  in winter ( my major folding times )
 

There's a much more efficient way to heat your house with all-electric (heat pump), but you do you.

A heat pump is typically 150 to 200% more efficient than resistive heating.

Resistive heating is 100% efficient when it comes to converting electricity to heat, but a heat pump is even more efficient than that. How? Because it uses vapor pressures to extract heat already in the air, so not all of its heat energy is purely electric.

New feature @ Extreme OC site ... they have Totals now:   Folding@Home Aggregate Teams Summary
 
 
So, All of 2019 (of those tracked by Extreme)  Points 952,714,407,039  @ 30,144,310 WU completed
 
Estimate kWh - Based on information from My Folding as Posted in Post #2:
 
               952,714,407,039/208.33 point per kWh consumed   =  kWh consumed in 2019
 
                                          4,573,102,323.42 kWh consumed in 2019

If you're folding on a laptop, you'll see between 60-90W usage. Converted to dollar's is roughly $60-90 annually on electricity, running 24/7.
If you have a desktop, the power at the wall could be anything from 80W on a small GPU, to 350W with a modern fast GPU.
If you pair up GPUs, it could be more than that.
Though not running fah, but boinc, I run at 1,7kWh for 6 GPUs 2x ryzen R9 CPUs and an Intel 6 core.
That's ~$1700 annually.
 
When I bought a new car, I could choose between a 30mpg fiesta St (200HP), or a V6 sedan doing 20mpg. The difference would net me $1700 annually on gas, so the savings I get with my car, I put in computing.