# waste heat

> Waste heat is by necessity produced both by machines that do work and in other processes that use energy, for example in a refrigerator warming the room air or a combustion engine releasing heat into the environment.

**Wikidata**: [Q288706](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q288706)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/waste-heat


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. Czech National Authority Database
3. YSO-Wikidata mapping project. 2024
4. Quora
5. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)