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rcthompson on June 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zeolite retains heat indefinitely, absorbs 4x more...

Surely a microwave oven is not 100% efficient in converting the input electrical energy into output heat in the object to be heated? I'm not sure how near 100% it is.

AnthonBerg on June 7, 2012 [–]

Hey good question. Kitchen microwaves: ~64%

– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Heating_efficien...

debacle on June 7, 2012 | [–]

That's actually pretty good.

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