• mastod0n@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I mean isn’t this wrong? It may be near 100% but there’s never 100% conversion to a single kind of energy. For example, even if it’s just a tiny faction, magnetic field convert electrical energy to kinetic energy, no?

        • Shayeta@feddit.org
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          35 minutes ago

          I guess we could also say that eventually that heat will escape outdoors and be radiated back into space, a tiny fraction of that will end up on the sun, and be sent back again.