Ok. I understand what you said, and I guess it's my fault for any confusion. My main reason for this thread was to talk about all of the heat transferred to the water through a pump's inefficiency.
One question though. When energy is lost to friction (resistance from the pipe walls for example) is it fair to assume that the heat created is dissapated partly by the tubing, or would you expect most of that heat to be carried away by the moving fluid?
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