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Re: Light bulbs and heat

To: british-cars-request@triumph.cs.utah.edu, british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Light bulbs and heat
From: lupienj@wal.hp.com (John Lupien)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 94 16:25:19 EDT
> I don't like to be pickey about this, but there should be less heat, not more.
> If the bulbs are rated at the same wattage (ie. energy input) and a greater 
> proportion of that energy is emitted as visible light (ie. they are brighter),
> then it follows that a smaller proportion must be emitted as heat. 
> Simple really!

Over-simple, really. You appear to have left half of the non-visible
spectrum out of your model. Perhaps there is less UV emitted, more IR,
and more visible? Then you'd get more heat, more light, and not quite as
good a tan...


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John R. Lupien
lupienj@wal.hp.com


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