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Re:The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet by sbierwagen on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:24PM (#19566392)
>Maybe even a pre-heat element on a stove top.

Going a little far there. The preheat loop would have to survive regular heating element temperatures, and most common refrigerants decompose above 500C.

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Re:The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet by Scoundreller on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:30PM (#19567410)
More like a keep-warm element on the stove top. Maybe it’s too close to the heating elements. Dunno. Would probably be fine for an inductive range.
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Re:The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet by sokoloff on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:35PM (#19568903)
Stovetop elements get over 900* F? That doesn’t seem intuitively right to me.
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Re:The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disruptive Yet by sbierwagen on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:00AM (#19569689)
Both electric and infrared stovetops can get hot enough to glow red, which means they have to be at least 550C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heat
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