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 cannot be destroyed, only converted. Electricity can be converted to mechanical energy, light energy, or some other form of energy. The most common is to heat energy.
Nearly everything that runs on electricity ends up turning it into heat eventually. The CPU just does it in a concentrated location, rather than say an electric car that spreads the heat out to the air and pavement as it drives. Thus, the CPU gets hot and need help spreading that heat out to the air.
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