I didn't realize how much heat comes from computers.

I thought most of my 650w would go into processing... although gosh maybe it does and I'm highly under estimating the watt.

you hear a watt...or joule I forget which is the amount of energy to do Xyz... but it's honestly rather unintuitive.

@LottieVixen every single of those watts becomes heat

@noiob I don't understand if all of it goes to heat then how does work get done with it

@LottieVixen energy can't be destroyed, just converted to a less useful form of energy (scientists say that the entropy of the system rises)

@noiob I knew it couldn't be destroyed I just...never put the two together about what it means to use energy...

so using it is just turning it into heat or something that can't easily be used again as electricity

@noiob consumption of electricity is just,in this case turning it into heat..ok

back to the other half of the original point now that's down.

I had no idea how much heat 650w made (uses less or whatever, doesn't matter really)

the amount of heat generated surprised me

@LottieVixen yeah 650 W is quite a bit of heat, that's a microwave on medium low

@noiob again this is unimaginable like the water example commonly used

also microwaves vary in power so medium low across them means different things

@LottieVixen well, microwaves have their wattage specified usually so that's why I used it at an example bc light bulbs don't heat up that much anymore

@noiob specified wattage though combined with medium low is just...

medium low on what wattage microwave and how would one feel the heat.. mew. sorry

just water definition is good from a numbers perspective just not for getting a feel for it

@LottieVixen idk it'll heat up food pretty quickly