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by stavros 32 days ago
Wait, this person knew that the wire could bring you light, but not that it could bring you heat? Hadn't they noticed that light bulbs heat up?
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rcxdude 32 days ago
It could be a reasonable argument from the point of view of scale: you need a lot more energy for cooking than for lighting (even with incandescent lightbulbs, though they were a fair bit dimmer and colder in the earlier days of them).
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stavros 32 days ago
Sure, but then that's just scale, not the laws of nature.
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