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Comment by Bendy

10 hours ago

Only if the resistive heater in question is DC or AC with reactive power compensation

A purely resistive heater, by definition, has no reactive component so there's no reactive power considerer.

The 0.1% mentioned might be the light that the project produces.

  • Assuming you're not in an endless vacuum, the light will also become heat.

    • I think it's fair to separate it from the direct heat generation because if you look at second order effects like that, pretty much all of the energy ends up being radiated away as infrared in space.

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