[Antennas] Interesting article written by a ham

Tue Jun 15 01:57:57 EDT 2004

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年06月13日, 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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