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What is meant when energy is lost?

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Another word is "dissipated". It means energy has been used up in useless things (like heating the surrounding air, or coolants) where it is totally impracticable to try to recover it (it would consume even more energy to try to do so). Notice that the energy has not been destroyed.

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