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You know how you turn on an electric heater and the filament begins to glow? That is energy being converted to light, so not 100% efficient.
Doesn’t the light turn into heat anyway as soon as it’s absorbed?
I mean if you want to go that route, we could just say that every speaker, light source, motor, etc is 100% efficient at generating heat because all of its energy output will eventually become heat.
I suggest we submit proposals to define "100%" and "efficient" before we design the experiment