I use it to heat my house.
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Lisa, in this meme we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Ive been testing combustion engines made of wood but keep getting more energy out than I put in…
Sorry, I’m a bit dumb for this one.
Could someone please explain?
There’s no such thing as a 100% efficient “engine”. But in this case, since the waste heat is put to use (heating the house), OP thinks there’s a loophole.
But, house would also need to be soundproof. Any noise leaking to the outside is lost energy.
Ah, but that’s by design: it also acts as a soothing white noise machine.
Then you might point out the exhaust and all it’s associated wastes, but that’s by design: it produces a heady and aromatic product for recreational huffing.
Then you might point out the vibrations, but that’s by design: the engine also provides invigorating massages to relax taut muscles.
Most engines are less than 30% efficient at producing movement. The majority of the energy is lost as heat.
Thermodynamics tells us that pretty much all energy ends up as heat. In a closed system, any device that uses energy is 100% efficient at making heat. A 1000W computer will make exactly as much heat as a 1000W heater.
A 100% efficient engine can only exist if the desired output is heat, thus making it a pretty useless engine. Also, in a closed system, the exhaust cannot leave.
A 1000W computer will make exactly as much heat as a 1000W heater.
All space heaters should be coin miners (or some other borderline useless energy wasting tech, like AI training). Change my mind.
If you want to be philanthropic, there are programs you can run that use your computer’s idle time to process data for cancer research and such.
