RE: [AMA] We are Dutch (top Gridcoin solo miner) and Vortac (Gridcoin and Steemit whale). Gridcoin is a cryptocurrency mined through scientific research instead of POW. Ask us (almost) anything.

For sure! So they way grant money works in my field of work is like this:

You propose some research with some outcome.
The grants body gives you some money, as they see fit, for you to use and live off.
You deliver the outcome at the time promised.

Provided you do those things, you can go on holiday with the grant money and that is perfectly acceptable. In fact, we have a lot of interns from overseas come through the lab, and we often take them on a lab sponsored trip at the end of their stay so they get to see some of the country.

So, to return to your question: Yes, I pay the power bill from my grant money, and I cannot distinguish general power use from BOINC power use, even if I wanted to.

The ultimate goal with GRC is to get our model running with a high degree of accuracy on our own BOINC server. I will then use my GRC to rain on participants to encourage people to run our work units. If we get a large enough number of computers participating, we can simulate much larger portions of the brain than we currently even consider attempting to investigate.