[Antennas] Interesting article written by a ham

[Terry Conboy]

At 06:38 PM 2004-06-13, Dave Holford wrote:
>I always thought that my little electric heater was 100% efficient, if
>it ain't i'd like to know where the lost energy goes?
>
>I know the system from generation to my cold feet has losses, but
>I really thought the heater was lossless.

Are you counting the acoustic energy (buzzing, clicking, etc.), the ELF 
radio waves and the visible light emitted by the heating element?

If you count all the energy involved (and energy <-> matter conversion), 
everything is 100% efficient.  8-)

Keep clam,
Terry