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- From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Wasted power, or is it?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.105156.15150@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:51:56 GMT
- References: <459@mx1> <1993Jan21.090351.11370@edscom.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: University of the West of England, Bristol
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- In article <1993Jan21.090351.11370@edscom.demon.co.uk> rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson) writes:
- >>
- >>Energy flows in. Energy flows out. It can't stay in the device and it
- >>certainly isn't going back to the national grid!
- >
- >If the device were to rise against gravity, it would be storing potential
- >energy available for release later. So it can stay in the device.
-
- It's exceedingly unlikely that a tv set on standby would do this, though.
- Some energy is spent producing light (the red LED on the front), and the
- rest ends up eventually as heat.
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