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So I am working on a design project for a research group and their device requires an ultra-low power consumption. Previously, the design engineer before me has TRIED to resolve the issue as follows:
He has used a MAX2750 chip which has a "shutdown mode". He then fed the...
This seems to be the apex of the argument. While I agree that the "black box" concept is true, recall that our goal is to HEAT the room. To do this we must add thermal energy to the room faster than the surroundings can take it away. While at the end of the day all the energy will go to thermal...
So we stray from the point. In the defense of my point, I argued that a heater have as much resistance as possible. This would ideally lead to large amounts of inelastic collisions with the lattice which would generate an irreversible thermal process "heat". When an engineer designs a heater...
Can you guys provide an example of where the computer is using the energy in a form that is not thermal? I tried to use the example that a heater provides large resistance ( which dissipates the energy in thermal energy via collisions) and in a computer this is not the case (at least not nearly...
So recently I have gotten in a heated argument with my friend about heating his apartment (no pun intended). Here is the argument:
My EE friend has a theoretical heater which runs on 1000 watts of power. In his apartment he also has another electronic device (ie. a computer, a television...