On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Horace Heffner <hheff...@mtaonline.net> wrote: > > >> As a double check on concepts, if you plug x=0.02856 into >> x/((x+(1-x)*0.0006)) then you get 0.98. That is to say, 98% of the mass of >> the volume expelled is water, and 2% steam - your starting assumptions. > > > As a double check on this discussion, you should note that they have now > run the cell with hot water only, no phase change, and they found it > recovered even more heat than with the phase change. So this speculation > about wet steam and greatly reduced enthapy is incorrect. > > Evidently Dr. Galantini was correct, and the steam was dry. Either that or > these estimates of the enthalpy of wet steam are incorrect. I do not know > which true, and it does not matter. A different method has now been used to > confirm the original conclusion. > So the flawed public demo has been vindicated by a private unofficial demo. As David Letterman used to say when Dick Cheney said the war in Iraq was going well: That's good enough for me.
