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[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'm ignoring many factors for the sake of being able to answer. There are some kinds of heating, especially using burning fuels that are nearly 100% efficient, but we don't know why it needs to get to that temperature, or how long it needs to stay that hot - so even if the transfer of heat is 100% efficient, this computation may underestimate the actual needs.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ah, alright, I was feeling dumb because the formulas made no sense to me but it is just a model providing a practical approximation. Thanks!

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