2011/6/25 Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If you have a high temperature thermometer, please try this at home: >> Boil some water in a teapot so that steam emerges from the spout. Turn the >> flame down, so that only a little emerges. Measure the temperature of the >> steam. You will find it is ~101°C. >> >> Turn the flame up as high as it will go. A lot of steam will come out. >> Measure the temperature again. It will still be 101°C. > > Of course, because there is liquid water present. You are heating the water, > not the steam. > That is good insight, because E-Cat heats water in liquid phase. Heating element is completely submerged into water. Input water flow is adjusted for exactly on that reason, so that E-Cat's heating element is always completely submerged. I.E. input flow is adjusted so that it matches evaporation rate.
Therefore E-Cat is exactly the same thing as a kettle where there is a hose plugged into nozzle and input water flow is adjusted so that there is always water present in liquid form. This why E-Cat has a tall chimney, to prevent overflow of water and boiling away all the water coolant. If there is no water in liquid form around heating element, E-Cat melts down. –Jouni P.S. It is surprising that you and abd have written hundreds of very long messages although misunderstanding is on such a basic level that people do not know how tea pot is functioning!
