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  • Jan 20, 2007, 03:39 AM
    deena2006
    Efficiency
    1. A 100w light bulb produces 8w of light
    What happens to the other 92w?
  • Jan 20, 2007, 04:03 AM
    Capuchin
    What other forms of energy do you know about? Which of these could be generated by the light bulb also?
  • Jan 30, 2007, 11:12 AM
    Evil dead
    Erm... radiation as heat?
  • Jan 30, 2007, 11:15 AM
    Capuchin
    Yes that's the main one. Pretty much all of it is heat.

    If you think about it, in order to emit mostly visible light, it has to be as hot as the sun. Which it isn't, and so it emits in the infra-red, which is heat.

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