To: Gorzaloon
“Thermodynamics reduces to “There is no free lunch”. It’s “slow and cheap” or “fast and expensive”. a 700 Watt microwave, or a 200 Watt hot plate-Both do the job.”
Smallest hotplate I’ve ever seen is 1500 watts. You use it to heat the container, which in turn heats the water. Microwave puts most of the heat directly into the water. That makes it more efficient twice. (not two times as efficient, but two modes of efficiency.)
43 posted on
09/09/2007 9:45:24 AM PDT by
Old Student
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To: Old Student
Smallest hotplate I’ve ever seen is 1500 watts. You use it to heat the container, which in turn heats the water. Microwave puts most of the heat directly into the water. That makes it more efficient twice. (not two times as efficient, but two modes of efficiency.) Hey, you just made me put down my coffee and go to the kitchen and read labels!
The Microwave is 3,850 Watts, and the hot plate is 1200.
Now I am going to have to microwave my coffee...
47 posted on
09/09/2007 9:56:05 AM PDT by
Gorzaloon
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