Power Consumption - on all day or not?

[Black Hole]

There is a certain body heat required to warm the whisky+water from 0 deg.C, but you would have to ingest the ice to use up the large number of calories required to overcome the latent heat of crystallisation.

[By the way, in case anybody is mystified, the Watt is a unit of power, the calorie is a unit of energy, and energy = power x time (or power = energy / time). A quantity of some material (eg water) requires a constant amount of energy to raise its temperature by a constant amount - unless it changes phase (eg ice melting into water) which requires much more energy.]

 

[gomezz]

I doubt it. Unless the room is above body temperature.

 

[Ezra Pound]

I doubt it. Unless the room is above body temperature.

The ice melts in the room, not in your body, unless (as pointed out above) you eat the ice

 

[Trev]

That is correct. The common or garden calorie (as in calorie counting) is actually 1000 scientific calories (1 kcal). Based on your figures, 100 Wh x 24 = 2064 kcals (same as above).

A calorie is 1000 calories. WTF. How scientific is that then? Well I suppose I am right in assuming that 100W will raise a litre of water through 86 degrees C in an hour then (assuming no heat loss and a water starting temperature of between zero and 14 deg C [to remove the latent heat of crystalisation or vapourisation from the equasion])

 

[prpr]

...it is no real surprise that men are 100W and women only 80.... (dives for cover)

Some women are hotter than others though
(And I mean that on at least 3 levels.)

 

[gomezz]

The ice melts in the room, not in your body, unless (as pointed out above) you eat the ice

But the chilled whisky ends up inside the body.