On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, if the water was in the mythical state discussed here in which it is > 90% liquid and 10% vapor, the liquid portion would definitely fall into the > bucket. The only way it could not have reached the bucket would be if it > was vapor, as far as I know. > An ultrasonic mister puts liquid water into the air without producing vapor. (The droplets evaporate later, and this will happen more quickly if they are already at 100C.) > > Notice it was not sparging when the camera first looked at the steam pipe > in the bucket. The steam was escaping and the condensate flowing down into > the bucket. After that Lewan put the hose under the water but a lot of > steam still escaped. > The problem was that it was not enough to account for 1 L/s of escaping dry steam.