Refrigeration just moves heat, it does not create it.
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yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Refrigeration cycle scoffs at your mere 100% efficiency
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Why create heat when you can just steal it from somewhere else, though
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Waste heat” is a relative term.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why drink my milkshake when I can drink yours? I can DRINK IT UP!
T156@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would end up creating some, due to inefficiencies, which may contribute.
devedeset@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
In terms of “use electricity to make heat” it still trounces resistive heating. This whole thread is arguing about the definition of efficiency.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 year ago
Nah this thing puts out light and probably vibrates as well, so not even 100%.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Well ultimately it all becomes heat. Maybe a tiny amount escapes a window or something. So we could say 99%.
But heat pumps still reign supreme, at least until it gets super cold.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 year ago
In the end we are all infinitely falling into the pit of entropy
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Speak for yourself.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 year ago
Light is just heat energy
Thorry@feddit.org 1 year ago
Well that’s just objectively wrong. Light is EM radiation, where heat is movement of atoms and molecules. Via incandescence objects can radiate away their heat (following black body radiation), however they are not the same thing.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 1 year ago
What happens when photons emittes from the heater hit items in the room? That energy is imparted into the object, heating it up.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Moving atoms don’t physically touch each other. They transfer their momentum with photons.