Light can make water evaporate without heat
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Light can make water evaporate without heat
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#2They give current solar desalination efficiency as 1.5 kilos of water per square meter. Shouldn't there be a time component?
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#3This technology leads directly to cloud lasers. Yesss
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#4Why is it surprising? Light can transfer momentum into the water, which is was matters for the process of evaporation...?
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#5They give current solar desalination efficiency as 1.5 kilos of water per square meter. Shouldn't there be a time component?
Wouldn't that be rate rather than efficiency?
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#6Why stop at water
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#8Why stop at water
Yea, I wonder if it could work on AI based Blockchain.
Re: Light can make water evaporate without heat
#9They give current solar desalination efficiency as 1.5 kilos of water per square meter. Shouldn't there be a time component?
Wouldn't that be rate rather than efficiency?
So maybe it would be better stated as 1.5 kilos per x joules of sunlight (or per area per day average? At the equator?) but as stated I can't make sense of it.
Re: Light can make water evaporate without heat
#10Why is it surprising? Light can transfer momentum into the water, which is was matters for the process of evaporation...?
Isn't 'transfer momentum' just a round about way of saying "heat up."
I think the interesting aspect here is that the evaporation is greater than what can be explained by heat alone.