>>>>> My collegues indicated that not all the power consumed by the
>>>>> processors and other hardware is converted into heat.  The energy is
>>>>> converted into work done by the processor.
> 
> That's just ridiculous.  Do a dimensional analysis.  If they can find
> an equation
> associating energy in joules to computational cycles WITHOUT INVOLVING
> current and voltage, well, we have a problem.

Yeah - also direct them to information theory, where thermodynamic 
entropy and information entropy are coupled, so that "doing work" with a 
computer basically requires generating heat.  [Wave hands for best results.]
-- 
Timothy J. Weber
http://timothyweber.org
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