From: Randy Whittle (whittle_at_usc.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 06 1996 - 02:10:45 EDT
At 08:31 PM 6/5/96 EDT, Robert Dewar wrote:
>"Assuming the competitors generate less heat (not just dissipate more heat),
>heat generated = battery power wasted."
>
>But we have no evidence that this is the case!
Basic laws of thermodynamics and conservation of matter (and energy)
provide all the evidence--actually solid *proof*--you need. *Anytime* heat
is generated, that means power has been wasted (unless that heat was
generated for a purpose and captured for that purpose--but I assure you,
nobody buys computers to use them as space heaters).
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Randy Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu
USC Graduate School of Business http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle
Women often ask, "What do men really want, deep in their souls?" The best
answer--based on in-depth analysis of the complex and subtle interplay of
thought, instinct, and emotion that constitutes the male psyche--is that
deep in their souls, men want to watch stuff go 'bang'. - Dave Barry,
October 2, 1994
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