Beyond theory, I’m sure that in the real world things work the way I’m telling. An example is a swamp cooler. There you have a small
ambient temp water reservoir that wets some kind of flat pad. Then there’s a fan that blows
ambient temp air thru this wet pad. The result:
Cool moist air. Can someone find a better explanation for this?
I think freeloadingbum proves my point, and that has to be the same for everyone with a bong that produces colder than ambient water.
Arcturius: I was explaining the case without the main cooling loop.
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heat cannot be destroyed, only transferred.
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That would be in a convection only world. The more precise statement is “Energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed”
In a car for example you start with the fuel, it has a lot energy stored in it, regardless of the temperature. With combustion, that energy is transformed to heat. The engine transforms heat into kinetic energy. A moving car has a lot of energy in it, and if you want to stop it you use brakes, that transform all that kinetic energy into heat again.
Vapor can be compared to a moving car: it hold energy in itself, regardless of the temperature.
Taking this back to the thread origin, as others have said, the core under the shower is not the best solution; Submerged would be better. But still this is not the best use for a HC; a pipe coil is the ideal.
So why not use the HC the way it’s designed? Blowing only air across it, but cool air from the bong? It’s not difficult to setup the bong, and test the core in the three different positions.