computers, heat, personal realization 

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.

re: computers, heat, personal realization 

@LottieVixen every single of those watts becomes heat

re: computers, heat, personal realization 

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

re: computers, heat, personal realization 

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

re: computers, heat, personal realization 

@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

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re: computers, heat, personal realization 

@LottieVixen yes! and that's happening all the time and can't be reversed, to convert energy into a more "useful" form you have to expend more energy, the entropy of the universe can only go up

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