On 02/09/2011 11:43 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I meant to say it makes NO difference whether the water is on top of > the submerged heating element, or the heating element is on top of the > water, or a joule heater in the water, or -- for that matter -- a > laser hitting the water, or a Hydrodynamics gadget that imparts the > energy with ultrasound. It makes no difference how much energy the > source imparts to the water. As long as the pressure remains at 1 atm > and the molecules intact, the temperature remains just over 100 deg C. > The molecules just leave the pot or tube in a bigger hurry, imparting > more kinetic energy to the air molecules they hit.
Jed, have you ever heard of PV = nRT? There's no point in repeating what I've already said, you either are refusing to read it, or refusing to think about it, or you simply have no clue about physical chemistry or flow rates. I don't believe the last one, so it must be one of the first two -- you won't read it, or you won't think about it.
