At 02:45 AM 6/23/2011, Joshua Cude wrote:
You are indeed wrong. Time for a refresher. Look up vapor pressure
in wikipedia for a start.
Water evaporates into pure gas (not droplets) below its boiling
point. Humidity measures the amount of water vapor (gas, not
droplets) in the air. When the partial pressure of the water vapor
in air equals the vapor pressure of water, evaporation stops, or at
least it balances condensation. That represents 100% humidity. The
ratio of the partial pressure of the water vapor to the vapor
pressure of water is the relative humidity.
The RH of steam at 100C and 1 atmosphere is therefore 100%.
Hah! Cude depends on Wikipedia too. A small confirmation, not
conclusive, of a private theory of mine as to his identity.
People arguing with Cude should realize that he knows his physics, he
has demonstrated that again and again. He also knows the literature
of cold fusion moderately well. I highly recommend being very careful
arguing with him, he can make the relatively ignorant look like
idiots, to those who know, and always remember, these debates are
read by people who do know, eventually.
He mixes up his extensive knowledge of physics with what he doesn't
know, he seems to be unaware of the edges of quantum mechanics, where
it breaks down and is unable, because of the sheer complexity, to
make accurate predictions unless simplifying assumptions are made. In
the case of cold fusion, those simplifying assumptions assume away
the necessary conditions, which involve serious multibody effects, apparently.
In any case, we'll know about the E-Cats soon enough, I'll predict.
