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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Your computer doesn’t use energy to do calculations, it uses negative entropy. It takes a highly ordered (low entropy) form of energy (electricity) and turns it into the most unordered form of energy possible (heat).
It converts low entropy into computation, and in the process it disperses the electrical energy as heat.
It’s like powering a water wheel with a river. You take water that’s upstream and it goes through the wheel and finally it continues through the river and ends up in the lake. 100% of the water ends up in the lake (this represents the 100% of energy that got transformed into heat), and the wheel didn’t consume water at all in it’s operation.
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