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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Suspension losses
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:05:19 -0500
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On 1/13/2025 11:03 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 1/13/2025 8:57 AM, zen cycle wrote:
>> On 1/13/2025 2:01 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:20:04 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But long before the days of transistors and "circuit boards" my folks
>>>> had an electric blanket... used it all the rest of their lives. Is the
>>>> modern one better?
>>>
>>> Not really better, but certainly safer.  Electric heaters are all 100%
>>> efficient.  Every watt you shove into the heating wires is turned into
>>> heat.  There's no way to improve on 100% efficiency.
>>
>> Nothing is 100% efficient
> 
> It's certainly true that 100% of the electricity consumed by an electric 
> blanket becomes heat.

No, that isn't true either. I write "either" because even _if_ it were 
true that electric heaters are 100% efficient (which isn't true), saying 
100% of the electricity consumed by the device become heat is very 
different than saying it's 100% efficient.

> 
> I've always had a mindset for minimizing waste. For most of my life I 
> was diligent about shutting off the light switch when leaving a room. 
> But now I often don't bother, especially in winter. LEDs draw so much 
> less electricity anyway, and in the winter the "waste" just amounts to 
> electric heat.
> 
> 


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