• Noved@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      Which travels to a location, hits it and is eventually converted to heat.

        • psud@aussie.zone
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          9 hours ago

          Typically a heater is in a room, so any light doesn’t need to go further than the nearby walls

          • nexguy@lemmy.world
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            6 hours ago

            But a heater produces heat and light. The light might turn into heat later but that’s not heat from the heater. Otherwise everything is s heater and it’s all part of the same heater… the universe.

    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      When light is absorbed by surface, the material temperature increases and remits light at a longer wave, ussually in the IR spectrum. So its safe to say all light is heat enegry.