Refrigeration cycle scoffs at your mere 100% efficiency
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If you want to make heat, start up a gaming PC. At least the energy will go to doing something before it gets turned to heat.
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Not true, it is true that it is heating at %100 efficiency that is to say %100 of the electrical energy is being transferred into heat (although technically some is being transferred into IR light not necessarily what you want) but your goal is probably not to simply create heat your goal is probably to heat the room or at least yourself and their is plenty of waste heat going off into space somewhere also you can achieve more than %100 heat transfer by compressing the external air's heat we call these heat pumps and they can achieve +400%. The key word is efficiency.
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Everyone here is talking about heat pumps for being more efficient. pfft
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Boo, get heat pump you loser
Most of the time, we consider heat output to be inefficient. It only works here because heat happens to be its purpose.
You could say it's 0% efficient.
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Well, heat pumps are significantly more efficient than traditional heaters because they move heat rather than generating it. A heat pump can deliver three to four times more heat energy than the electrical energy it consumes, making them 300-400% efficient.
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Pfft. Making things hotter is easy. The fact that we can regularly make things colder and hold them at that colder temperature is what's actually impressive in thermodynamics
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Make those heating coils out of superconductors and it'll be even more efficient.
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Pfftt. Splitting wood is peak heat thermodynamics. And I can attest it keeps you warm down to -40F.
That is how the power supply of my Laptop look like, playing Cyberpunk 2077 on my laptop.
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My cat agrees.
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(As a nerd) I came here for the nerdy comments.
Turn that entropy up to 11, boi!
So hot.
You're objectively wrong here.
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