On 26/12/16 01:59, T i m wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:09:05 +0000, bert wrote:

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How much hotter does a kettle of water get if the thermostat gets
stuck on and the water continues boiling? If it doesn't get any
hotter, where / how is that surplus energy being dissipated?

Didn't you pay any attention at all in your science lessons?

Yup ....

At normal atmospheric pressure water boils at 100 degrees - period.

No? Really? Fancy that!

Another left brainer failing to understand a rhetorical statement.

The point (that whooshed you) was to suggest that you *could* continue
to put energy into a system without actually increasing (say) the
temperature because the surplus energy was being liberated elsewhere.



Then the system isn't closed and isn't a 'system'
Try to keep up OM. ;-)


Try to keep up.

Cheers, T i m