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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Energy doesn’t disappear, it is only converted to different types of energy. When we talk about energy loss in electronics, what we mean is that some amount of energy was converted to heat. Heat is the most fundamental form of energy. All energy “wants” to become heat. If what we _want_ is heat, then now we’ve changed the equation and what was once “lost” is instead a useful output.
CPU’s are very good at doing work with the electricity input until it escapes as heat
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