On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:29:54AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > All electric resistance heaters (those that are not "heat pumps" using a > freon exchange system) are 100% efficient. They all turn all the electric > Watts you put into them into heat.
I wouldn't be so sure about that; I can hear the fan on my electric heater, which tells me that at least some of the energy is coming out as noise. Of course, the amount of energy tugning into noise instead of heat is, statistically speaking, noise :) Cheers, Kris P.S. Yes, a large part of the motivation for writing this was so that I could use 2 different definitions of "noise" to refer to noise as noise. -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
