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Re: heat dissipation



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).

-------
Randy Whittle		whittle@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
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thought, instinct, and emotion that constitutes the male psyche--is that
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October 2, 1994