On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Joshua Cude <joshua.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Doesn't matter. Heat stored in water is useless to keep water boiling. > Heat stored in steel at a much higher temperature can keep water boiling > until it cools down to the boiling point of water. Don't you now anything? > > The comparison of heat capacity to water is irrelevant. What matters is > only whether you can store enough heat in the steel at a much higher > temperature to account for the observations. It seems, you can. > Once again, for an illustration of that, in the case of a steel mass, modeled in an October 6 configuration as a store for heat, please see this figure resulting from modelling of the October 6 experiment by an anonymous source: http://i.imgur.com/o7soB.jpg