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Yes, I get it. Being a Mechanical Engineer and used to balancing energy in heat engines, I just (incorrectly) assumed that SOME kind of work was being done by t
by gusmd 11y ago
Yes, I get it. Being a Mechanical Engineer and used to balancing energy in heat engines, I just (incorrectly) assumed that SOME kind of work was being done by the computer to perform its main function, which is obviously not the case (at least not to non-negligible amounts). Thanks for clarifying.
- caf 11y agoAhh, as an ME you would appreciate then that the useful work a computer does is not thermodynamic work but a decrease in the disorder of some system it is a part of, and this necessarily requires increasing the entropy of its environment - typically by transferring heat to it!