I'm in Texas where power is pretty cheap, but I can't bring myself to run my ASIC miner because it seems so wasteful. 

So, I went to Peercoin and I am a fully distributed, decentralized minter now. 

A full node can be run on less than 3 watts.

There is a program where you can get 10 PPC for setting up a node on a Raspberry Pi.

It is linked here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=715971.new#new