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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

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[-] Xatix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I‘m was using two old servers with folding@home running as space heaters in the winter. I got them for dirt cheap and thought if I convert electricity into heat, I might as well do something good with it. Also nice opportunity to run a minecraft server for the kids during that time.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 months ago

You double-posted this comment, FYI

[-] Techranger@infosec.pub 8 points 9 months ago

One for each server.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

It's still efficient because both those comments will end up as heat anyway.

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