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To: Revel
Since at the heater itself electric heat is pretty close to 100% efficient.

How do you get an electric heating element that is not completely 100% efficient?

What would be the losses if not heat?

76 posted on 01/03/2015 5:39:06 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
"What would be the losses if not heat?"

Line losses? Light? Oxydation?

85 posted on 01/03/2015 6:10:20 PM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: thackney

It probably is 100% all the way. Yet what about the small magnetic field that is generated since it is AC. Does that cause a miniscule loss in the form of a magnetic field? So could someone argue that it is .000001 % inefficient?


101 posted on 01/03/2015 7:43:18 PM PST by Revel
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