If a machine is never 100% efficient transforming energy into work because part of the energy is converted into heat, does it mean an electric heater is 100% efficient? @showerthoughts@lemmy.world

  • Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yes, but magnetic flux causes radio waves and there isn’t a guarantee these will turn into heat in the space you are heating.

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      9 months ago

      That’s an interesting point about radio emissions leaving the heated space.