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Cake day: May 8th, 2024

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  • Fair enough, sorry. It’s just that your question (and some of your answers) don’t seem to be accounting for dealing with the volume change of steam, and how that would be managed.

    Also the fact that if you’re evaporating the water off anyway, why not just let it escape and concentrate the chemicals, and then deal with them that way? I’d guess most of them would not be in the vapour anyway? (unless they’re volatile, in which case they’d probably boil off even earlier)

    Re: Lava contact. I don’t think the resulting water vapour is much more than 100°C? The phase change takes a lot of energy to phase change, and is still at about 100°C after that, and then the steam would escape very quickly, and be displaced by more water, so it would not have much chance to heat up more. The lava-water interface would always be at about 100°C, give or take a few tens of degrees for the Leidenfrost effect, maybe? I might be wrong here, but I can’t see how it would get MUCH hotter than 100°C (assuming normal surface pressure).








  • Go in with low expectations, and you’ll probably have a good time. Here’s some to start with:

    You’ll be sore from walking. Sleeping might be uncomfortable or cold, or wet. Food will probably be crap, or hard to cook. Animals will freak you out in the middle of the night, or try to eat your food. You’ll smell like smoke (unless it’s a fire ban, then you’ll be cold). Taking a dump in the bush is not comfortable, even after you get used to it.

    It’s type 2 fun though, so it’ll be good in hindsight. Also you’ll probably see a bunch of beautiful shit and maybe get to swim somewhere nice. Just gotta give it a go, and see if it’s for you. Personally I love it.