There’s nothing particularly strange about it. There would be probably be some measurable heat that would eventually make it to the final gear if you had an ide

There’s nothing particularly strange about it. There would be probably be some measurable heat that would eventually make it to the final gear if you had an ideal setup for measurement. I haven’t done the order of magnitude estimation, but it’s probably not significantly different than snapping your fingers in your bedroom and asking precisely what effect it has on a specific air molecule in your kitchen.