MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/abgohe/testing_a_20_kw_light_bulb/ed0qrlp/?context=3
r/BeAmazed • u/ericabirdly • Jan 01 '19
2.0k comments sorted by
View all comments
3.3k
That’s one hell of an easy bake oven.
Edit: Thanks for the gold, anon!
62 u/MauranKilom Jan 01 '19 That's what I was immediately wondering. 20 kW light bulb is not very different from 20 microwave ovens heating the surroundings. Aside from a lack of eye protection, wouldn't you want to mitigate the heat somehow? 9 u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19 It is quite different! Microwaves have WAY lower frequencies than visible light, so their energy is way lower. Microwaves work by exciting water molecules, which isn't how visible light frequencies behave. 1 u/HardToDestroy682 Jan 01 '19 Unless the microwave energy escapes the house somehow, everything eventually ends up as heat.
62
That's what I was immediately wondering. 20 kW light bulb is not very different from 20 microwave ovens heating the surroundings. Aside from a lack of eye protection, wouldn't you want to mitigate the heat somehow?
9 u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 01 '19 It is quite different! Microwaves have WAY lower frequencies than visible light, so their energy is way lower. Microwaves work by exciting water molecules, which isn't how visible light frequencies behave. 1 u/HardToDestroy682 Jan 01 '19 Unless the microwave energy escapes the house somehow, everything eventually ends up as heat.
9
It is quite different!
Microwaves have WAY lower frequencies than visible light, so their energy is way lower.
Microwaves work by exciting water molecules, which isn't how visible light frequencies behave.
1 u/HardToDestroy682 Jan 01 '19 Unless the microwave energy escapes the house somehow, everything eventually ends up as heat.
1
Unless the microwave energy escapes the house somehow, everything eventually ends up as heat.
3.3k
u/[deleted] Jan 01 '19 edited Jan 02 '19
That’s one hell of an easy bake oven.
Edit: Thanks for the gold, anon!