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No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat. If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.
by virgo_eye 6y ago
No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat.
If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.
- medstrom 6y agoJust turning chaos into order takes thermodynamic work, but I was wildly off with my percentages. Thinking in terms of an idealized computer that doesn't create heat, but didn't realize how far we were from that.