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The dunking bird does make us face some interesting thermodynamics.
Consider a closed, thermally isolated (adiabatic) system containing at
time t=0 a pan of water and dry air that are at the same temperature.
As time passes, evaporation will deliver water vapor to the air and
cause the remaining water in the pan to cool off! However, since the
system is closed, the air will eventually reach saturation humidity and
the remaining water in the pan will not be cooled any more. Assuming
zero heat flow thru the system walls, what will the final temperature of
this system be? Cooler than the starting temperature?
Scott Little & Stephanie Eyres Little
1406 Old Wagon Road
Austin TX 78746
512-328-4071
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Scott Little wrote:
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> The dunking bird does make us face some
> interesting thermodynamics....what will the final temperature
> of this system be?
Scott, I'm glad you are displaying publicly your ignorance
of Drinking Bird physics. It makes it quite clear that
you are not qualified to experimentally investigate the effect.
Your level of ignorance is incredible, but that
is excusable---you are simply outside your area of expertise.
The inventor of the Drinking Bird had 50 years experience
working with evaporating liquids, during his years operating
a still in the Ozark mountains, starting during the Prohibition.
He knows things about evaporation that one cannot expect to
find in books or papers, or to learn on ones own with a few days, weeks,
or even years of trial and error. He has spent hundreds of thousands of
hours learning how to enhance evaporative effects, painstaking
preparing, distilling, and drinking thousands of experimental recipes.
It is pointless for you to try and duplicate his efforts!
Your recent pathetic attempt to investigate the Drinking
Bird O/U effect is an appaling afront to real science---you
devise an experiment bound to fail---which you don't even carry
out!---and then simply fall back on theoretical prejudices
to affirm your imaginary results! Evidently, you find the prospect
of Drinking Bird Power to great a threat to your current
cozy existence, and will use any means necessary to discredit
it, to the point of completely fabricating experimental
results! This is worse than the great MIT Drinking Bird
scandal, in which they subtracted off the molecular bonding
energy stored in the birds glass skeleton in order to make they
final results come out under unity!
I cannot sit by any longer, allowing this travesty to continue.
Millions of people are dying unecessarily each day that
this technology is delayed. So, I am formally announcing
that I'm launching a new magazine, call "Infinite Drinking",
which will be a vehicle for spreading information about
Drinking Birds, and related devices that bob incessantly.
Also, I'm incorporating my own comapany, Drinking Bird Power
(DBP), to begin selling demostration kits and
raising capital to construct a 20 KW prototype Drinking Bird
Power plant. The design for this plant is completed, and
we are currently partnering with companies that can supply
us with a 300 meter long glass tube and 100,000 gallons of red liquid.
We are still seeking a vendor who can supply us with a size 10,000 fuzzy
red tophat and a giant red feather.
Our research group is also making incredbile strides.
Good Morning America's science editor Dr. Michael Guillen
recently visited our research lab in the Ozark mountains,
where he observed our latest breakthrough:
it appears that if the red liquid in the bird is spiked with radioactive
isotopes, the radiation is completely remediated after
roughly 1000 bobs. A complete technical demonstration will be appearing
on Good Morning America in the near future.
The time to develop Drinking Bird Power is now. I can clearly
see the day when fields of great crystalline birds, their
red hats bobbing in unison, their red liquid cores rising
and falling like the tides, provides for all the worlds
energy. Astride every water heater, and under every hood,
a silent chorus of Drinking Birds will power our lives.
And they will dance silently upon the graves of the patholigical
skeptics and scietific welfare queens who denied and feared
their reality. Here's to "Infinite Drinking!"
;-) ;-)
-- Barry MerrimanAsst. Prof., UCLA Dept. of MathResearch Scientist, UCSD Fusion Energy Research Programemail: barry@math.ucla.edu homepage: http://www.math.ucla.edu/~barry-- Jerry W. Decker / jdecker@keelynet.com http://keelynet.com / "From an Art to a Science" Voice : (214) 324-8741 / FAX : (214) 324-3501 KeelyNet - PO BOX 870716 - Mesquite - Republic of Texas - 75187