> "Humanity's sake" is all nice and good, but if these grid projects are to
> achive better success, they should consider some minimal payment, to
> compensate for energy usage at least. Nothing is free, and in the end, that
> anti cancer drug you help discover (albeit in an extremely minor way) will
> be sold to you at hundereds or thousands of dollars a pop if and when you
> need it. An alternative is to make such research and end products public
> domain and patent free.


Many of the projects are not-for-profit reserach organizations. And would you
rather have a cure available?? Or not? Keep in mind, the current approach of
cutting someone open and removing the offending parts is very expensive,
painful and risky to the patient. Overall, when a better method is discovered,
it will probably cost LESS to treat the patient then the current approaches.
And this will make the insurance costs for everyone begin to decrease over
time.

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