The number of bux sites or PTC sites (pay per click) was increased in the last years. Today there are over one hundred web sites in the world which are promised that you will make easily and free money from your home. It is possible to win a very few dollars only if you click on the advertisements in the particular bux site. Some PTC sites offer extra bonus via tasks games and surveys for more money. In the most bux sites, you can win 0.001$ per adv, and must be click 20-30 ads per day.
In the other hand, a big part of computer users, leave ON their computers many hours. The lost electrical energy of computer consumption for clicking procedure, is an important consequence. This energy we will try to calculate below.
Data - assumptions:
32 bux / PTC sites.
Average computer consumption (LCD monitor) = 0.13 kW
Average hold time for clicking on the bux site = 50 mins/day
Estimated active accounts of a PTC site, are more 250% of "last 48h earners" or more 450% of "last 24h earners". Also are 70% of total registered members.
1 active account = 1 PC.
The most important data is the number of active accounts of the 29 PTC sites.
The total active estimated accounts of PTC sites are 26460232 accounts.
Now we have the following calculations:
0.13 kW/pc*day x (50/60) h/day x 26460232 PC's = 2,86 GWh per day electric power
2,86 GWh per day x 365 = 1.043 TWh per year.
If we assume that average energy cost in the world is 0.1 $ / kWh, the cost of electric energy for clicking in bux/PTC sites are $104 trillions.