Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> The energy produced was apparently *exactly* what was needed to boil away > the input water -- no more, no less. > > And *that* is strange. > Nope. That's steam at 1 atm. It never gets any hotter than just above boiling. > It comes out faster with more enthalpy if the pump adds more energy to it. > > > THAT'S THE POINT! > > If the reactor produced even a few hundred watts more than what was needed > to vaporize the water, the temperature of the steam would have been > substantially higher than boiling. > Nope. It would just move faster out of the end of the hose, as I said. You have to raise the pressure to make the temperature go up. - Jed
