Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now, if you boil water in an *open* boiler with a *submerged* heating > element, the temperature of the steam will never go above 100C (give or take > a degree). > Exactly. And that's still how it works if you turn the pot sideways. That's what the Rossi and Hydrodynamics gadgets amount to: sideways open boilers. It makes difference whether the water is on top of the heater surface, or the heater surface is on top, or all around the water. For that matter, if you put the pot on the space shuttle, then the heater is neither on the top or bottom, but as long as the steam escapes immediately at 1 atm the steam temperature will not rise; the molecules merely move faster as the heating surface gets hotter. - Jed
