Quote Originally Posted by Xope_Poquar View Post
As far as a computer heat sink is concerned, it is. The heat is generated from the friction of electrons moving through the silicon. The thermal energy is transferred through the IHS to the heat sink where it is absorbed by the air.

The heat sink does not do any energy conversions. There is no energy in the form of sound, light (radioactivity), mechanical, magnetic, nuclear, chemical, spring, electric, or dark (that I know of lol) that leaves the heat sink that was in the form of thermal energy when it left the IHS.

Technically heat is a form of kinetic energy as atomically the atoms are vibrating together (technically of which their fields are causing each other to vibrate).

I have to go to work so I'm going to stop there.

not entirely. alot of those watts are turned into mechanical. (although small, processors are a form of machine)

watts are just a measurment of potential work. watts is not heat.