: why do blow dryers consume so much power?

Question

: why do blow dryers consume so much power?

In: Technology

Answer 1

We generally don’t realize how much energy it takes to generate heat. Our electronics are so efficient that they use far less energy than is created by, say, a large candle. My entire gaming computer only produces maybe 200 watts, or 6 tea candles’ worth of heat. That’s really not a lot. A blowdryer, meanwhile, is more like 56 tea candles. It is making the air quite hot, and moving a *lot* of that air.