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by cgdcraig 2884 days ago
That's true only of devices that don't convert the energy into work(motors), light(LEDs) or other voltages(transformers). All other electronics convert all the power into heat. Basically any computer is a heater that so happens is able to do math as well. Energy is consumed for doing a computation but it's 6-7 orders smaller than what the heat produced