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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think that light also becomes heat again once it strikes a surface

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Mostly, but not entirely.

    Most thing you struggle to approach anywhere near 100% efficient, heating is a bit easier in that you can get a lot closer, but you’ll still hit limits before reaching 100%.

    Saying inefficiencies are lost as heat is really a lazy simplification, inefficiencies are lost as anything It just turns out that 95% of anything is heat, from entropies perspective.

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