In article
,
"Vaughn Simon" wrote:

"Mike Hartigan" wrote in message
.net...
If you have a refrigerator that consumes 500 watts
of electricity and it runs continuously, it's producing exactly the
same amount of heat as five 100 watt light bulbs.

Not sure that is 100% true. There is lots of waste heat, but the
refrigeration system is expending energy pumping heat out of the refrigerated
area, just so it can gradually be absorbed back from your heated home. At
the
end of the day, does all of the energy that the refrigerator uses really show
up
as waste heat in the room?

My head hurts.

Vaughn



Yes Vaughn, it does all end up in heat, in the room, which then leaks out
of the house and heats the outside world, which then also leaks off the
planet and heats SPACE..... wheather it is "Waste Heat" is a matter of
Politics.......

Bruce in alaska
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