[Antennas] Interesting article written by a ham

[Elliott Olson]

Oops, sent to Terry instead of the list the first time
Hello Terry,

And what about entropic loss? (negligible in this instance)

Sunday, June 13, 2004, 10:10:11 PM, Terry wrote:

TC> 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.

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

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

TC> Keep clam,
TC> Terry



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