Rich Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1. Presumably, the H-Ni system is not aware of what is happening > inside the conduit, so the notion that at the exact moment the > temperature hits boiling, its power output would increase 8-fold is > not believable. > Even less believable is the notion that it would stop increasing > exactly when the water is all converted to steam, and not a per cent > more. > How could the nickel know? This is nonsense. Has this author ever made a pot of soup?!? When you adjust the flame, the water boils, stops boiling, and boils again abruptly. The transition is inherently abrupt but it is smoothed somewhat by latent heat in the metal of the pot, even though the specific heat of metal is 10 times lower than water. Furthermore, as the Rossi device or Hydrodynamics gadget approaches boiling, because water is pumped through it, a mixture of steam and boiling hot water comes out of it, so there is, in fact, an intermediate state. - Jed
