Also, by the way, knowing Rossi as I do, that estimate of 1 g per 24
hours probably means something like:
"~1 gram every day or every week, whenever we get around to checking,
but it might be one-tenth gram because we measure the entire tank with a
weight scale."
Rossi is not the kind of person who cares about precision. At all. If
you are looking for highly accurate numbers backed by rigorous methods,
read McKubre.
Rossi is a rough-and-ready factory-floor engineer who deals with
equipment heavy enough and dangerous enough to kill you if you make a
mistake. He is the kind of guy who checks to see if steam is dry by
running his bare hand through invisible steam, to see if it hurts like
hell. If it does not hurt much, the steam is dry and that's all he
cares. The precise extent of dryness makes no different. You can bet
your life it is within 10% of the textbook figure for steam enthalpy,
2260 kJ/kg. You do, in fact, bet your life on that being true. Every
time you ride in a train or fly in an airplane, you bet your life that
factory-floor managers know what they are doing.
- Jed
