• einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    100% of the energy is converted to light, its just in the IR spectrum.

    Unless u feed the heater with AC power then you are also generating magnetic fields/radio waves…but those are also just photons (light) with a very long wavelengh…

    • turdas@suppo.fi
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      Space heaters mostly heat by convective heating, where the heat energy is transferred from the element to the air molecules around it. This doesn’t involve infrared radiation (though in practice it is involved because any object above 0 K radiates infrared).

    • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      You reminded me of a certain video (or videos?) on quantum fields that I watched a few months back. Truly fascinating subject.