On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:27:57PM -0800, Brian Mury wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-03 at 17:39 -0500, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > An electric heater is not 100% efficient and the components in it are
> > *made* to be efficient for the purposes of heating. (I'm not even sure
> > what 100% efficient means when converting electricity to heat - I
> > would think that it would mean 100% electricity in = 100% heat out -
> > which is not the case at all for any sort of electrical heaters that I
> > am familiar with)
> Of course an electric heater is 100% efficient. A lightbulb is not 100%
> efficient - it's job is to produce light, but it has loss in the form of
> heat. An electric heater's job is to produce heat - and it has loss in
> the form of what? Heat? Every bit of energy consumed by an electric
> heater generates heat. All of it. Every last bit.
> Please tell me where you think the electrical energy that is not
> converted to thermal energy goes.
Well, now you can show off and explain why some heaters are more efficient
than other heaters. I'm interested. :-)
Or does it not matter which heater I buy at Canadian Tire - as long as
I look at the capacity rating, I'll know it will cost me the exact
same in electrical costs?
mark (who might be full of crap in his doubt and disbelief of Brian's
electrical engineering logic claiming that, for a house that requires
heating, running a computer 24/7 is virtually free...)
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