# "100% infra-red heat!"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-infra-red-heat/451381>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 1, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-infra-red-heat/451381 "2008-06-01T20:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-infra-red-heat/451381/21 "2008-06-02T20:03:43Z")

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I think you could transfer heat at almost any frequency as long as there was some allowable transition in that energy range. Way back, when I was learning nuclear magnetic resonance, I thought this was the way microwaves worked. While I was entirely wrong, I still suspect that heat could be produced in the way that I suspected by tuning EM radiation to a specific nucleous. I have no idea about the efficiency of such a device.

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