Quote Originally Posted by exhausted mule View Post
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.
Here we go again...

What kind of machines? Their efficiency is zero. 0. Yes, they are able to convert set bits to another set of bits, but thats it. When they do that, they generate heat with all the power they draw.