On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Steam can be wet. Live with it. > > Semantics, I know; but, wet steam is not steam: > > steam > [steem] > –noun > 1. > water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor. > > Water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor can have droplets suspended in it. That makes it wet steam. Towel: A piece of absorbent cloth. Wet towel: A piece of absorbent cloth with water droplets supported in it. A wet towel is still a towel. Moreover, from the American Heritage Dictionary: Steam: 1 a. The vapor phase of water b. A mist of cooling water vapor. and from dictionary.com: Steam: [...] 3. the mist formed when the gas or vapor from boiling water condenses in the air. Steam can be wet. Live with it. And yes, it is semantics. So both your semantics and your physics are wrong. The criticism of the ecat, independent of your semantic problems, is that what comes out of it is not pure vapor, but a mixture of vapor and liquid, and therefore represents about 7 or 8 times less power than claimed.
