I'm so happy this man nerded out about heat pumps for a few hours.

But now, all I see is inferior heaters.

This man taught us that heaters are indeed about as efficient as you can get in turning energy into heat through a little thing called resistance.

His videos are why I got a heat pump water heater instead of a standard one when mine died. I figure in summer I can hook the exhaust duct up to my hvac and get a bit of free air conditioning out of it, since I don't have AC yet. Tiny extra bonus piped straight to my bedroom.

Hey that's the guy I see once a year at Christmas time!

I came here to see a picture of this man.

Name? Favorite link?

Fair enough, do we need to extend this heater solidarity to combustibles as well?

I mean technically they’re infinitely electrically efficient if you don’t use electricity to start them lol

well considering everything over 0K emits light I guess there really is no 100% efficient electric machine

And that light? Albert Einstein.

Isn't light heat?

math as a side effect

That's a funny way of spelling porn

I love firing up my PC and gaming on cold winter nights. A well placed fan or two and I can spread it through my entire apartment and the heat won't kick on all night. Ends up saving me money, my heater costs way more than my PC to run.

It all becomes heat eventually in the end though. Sometimes it's just a multi step complex process outside the physical bounds of the heater.

Wait a sec, is the universe just God's space heater?

It might output the results of a computation once in a while though

Main effect of a brushless motor is moving matter really fast, which, on a molecular level, is same as heating it.

if you dont count powering i/o devices (other heaters) (or electromagnetic wave emmiters so heaters with extra steps)

There's a whole class of electric heater that do this intentionally. Radiant heaters are awesome for outdoor patios and other spaces like uninsulated garages where you care more about heating surfaces than the air itself.

Unless it is visible to the window at which point the light escapes and doesn’t heat your house 100% efficiently

So not a heater...but the universe.

Setup sponsored by Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, to have a real toasting effect.

I have a little "tradition" of doing a playthrough of very hardware-demanding stuff in winter. Tarkov is one of my favs for this since it's unoptimized as hell and the post soviet aesthetics really fit the season

I had some frozen imitation crab legs that I wanted to eat, but didn't want to microwave proper. I put them on top of my PC's GPU radiator and ran a stress test while watching stuff so it would thaw faster without overheating.

That's sausage-bread though

... Some people keep track of their power bricks and know where they've been.

... Never thought 'good cable management' would become a hygiene/sanitation issue, but, apparently it is.

The resulting grease fire will increase the electrical power->heat conversion calculation to over 100%!

What are you, afraid of fire? This is progress. Cavemen were bold and progressed.

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.

If all became heat upon striking a surface that would make lighting anything pretty impossible and most would be dark.