I’m confused. I did some research online, and learned that cpu’s can essentially double has a hotplate, because 99-100% of electricity consumed is turned into heat. how? doesn’t the cpu use energy to make calcuations and render things? I’m real confused.
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all electricity consumed becomes heat, basically.
Used to move a fan? Heat in the motor, and then it move the blaes, which move the air. That air doesn’t move perpetually. It slows down and stops. What stops it? Friction. What is that kinetic energy turned into as it stops? Heat.
Used to execution CPU instructions? Internal resistance at every little itty bitty transistor, every little bit flipped or flopped, that’s resistance and heat.
Every time you ask electricity to *do* something, there is wasted energy. Heat.
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