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while computers give off heat, they are terribly inefficient creators of heat and in no way make a good replacement for dedicated electric heaters
by obmelvin 9y ago
while computers give off heat, they are terribly inefficient creators of heat and in no way make a good replacement for dedicated electric heaters
- scatters 9y agoComputers are well over 99% efficient as heaters. The only energy they emit is a tiny amount of EM from LEDs, clock signal and the transformer, and a minuscule amount of fan noise (which is almost all absorbed by the immediate environment anyway). Electric heaters similarly emit EM and noise, so I wouldn't be surprised if some are actually less efficient as heaters than the average computer. It is possible for a heater to be over 100% efficient by removing heat from an external environment, but heat pumps require significant supporting infrastructure.