Radar
August 12th, 2007, 12:46 AM
I thought I'd throw one of my theories at you, I have dozens tucked away in my hyper active mind. Some of these theories are okay, some will never see the light of day. Okay here is one that popped into my head whilst I was driving home from work yesterday -
Watching this Eco bus cruising down the road the other day. The sign on the bus said, 100% Clean 100% Steam. This was obviously a hydrogen powered bus.
And sure enough, a big exhaust at the rear of this vehicle was exhaling large amounts of steam. I thought, "that's great".
Nice and clean I guess.
Now here's my theory about this -
In the next few decades, we are going to see more and more cars and other forms of transportation using this 100% clean technology, where steam (hot water vapour) is the only emission.
So picture this, 30 years from now, you are standing on the side of a busy road in the city, hydrogen powered cars are lined up bumper to bumper trying to get through the traffic, the temperature is 28 degrees Celsius, but because of all these hundreds and hundreds of cars all exhaling large amounts of steam (hot water vapour) into your surrounding environment, this will have an increased effect on the humidity around you. What was a nice hot dry day, is now a very sticky humid place to be (only in the immediate area of course). Of course moving away from the immediate environment solves your problem. Only being in the vicinity of where hundreds of hydrogen powered engines are would allow you to feel this effect.
The effect of man made rises in humidity is called Palmidity.
Definition of Palmidity.
Sudden variations in humidity as a result of artificially modyfing the moisture content of the surrounding atmosphere by method of inserting large amounts of hot water vapour (steam) into the surrounding atmosphere; that these areas of varying humidity remain specific to the areas in which they created, such as intersections, car traffic jams, car parks, busy roads etc.
Palmidity does not blanket huge areas, that's what normal humidity is. [/B]:Chessy_Smile: [B]
In a nutshell Palmidity is a small isolated area of high humidity caused by man made machines exhaling hot water vapour.
Example - You are playing football in a park, it's a nice dry 27 degrees Celsius. You decide to go home, you walk over to a very busy road where there are dozens of hydrogen powered cars all emitting hot water vapour (steam), you feel a sudden increase in humidity and moisture in the air, that's Palmidity. :thumbsupmate:
Well that's my contribution to the scientific world tonight?
This probably has no real meaning to us now, but 30 years times, no one will be sitting on the side of the road eating an ice cream due to the hot sweaty levels of Palmidity.
Thoughts? Be Gentle!
Watching this Eco bus cruising down the road the other day. The sign on the bus said, 100% Clean 100% Steam. This was obviously a hydrogen powered bus.
And sure enough, a big exhaust at the rear of this vehicle was exhaling large amounts of steam. I thought, "that's great".
Nice and clean I guess.
Now here's my theory about this -
In the next few decades, we are going to see more and more cars and other forms of transportation using this 100% clean technology, where steam (hot water vapour) is the only emission.
So picture this, 30 years from now, you are standing on the side of a busy road in the city, hydrogen powered cars are lined up bumper to bumper trying to get through the traffic, the temperature is 28 degrees Celsius, but because of all these hundreds and hundreds of cars all exhaling large amounts of steam (hot water vapour) into your surrounding environment, this will have an increased effect on the humidity around you. What was a nice hot dry day, is now a very sticky humid place to be (only in the immediate area of course). Of course moving away from the immediate environment solves your problem. Only being in the vicinity of where hundreds of hydrogen powered engines are would allow you to feel this effect.
The effect of man made rises in humidity is called Palmidity.
Definition of Palmidity.
Sudden variations in humidity as a result of artificially modyfing the moisture content of the surrounding atmosphere by method of inserting large amounts of hot water vapour (steam) into the surrounding atmosphere; that these areas of varying humidity remain specific to the areas in which they created, such as intersections, car traffic jams, car parks, busy roads etc.
Palmidity does not blanket huge areas, that's what normal humidity is. [/B]:Chessy_Smile: [B]
In a nutshell Palmidity is a small isolated area of high humidity caused by man made machines exhaling hot water vapour.
Example - You are playing football in a park, it's a nice dry 27 degrees Celsius. You decide to go home, you walk over to a very busy road where there are dozens of hydrogen powered cars all emitting hot water vapour (steam), you feel a sudden increase in humidity and moisture in the air, that's Palmidity. :thumbsupmate:
Well that's my contribution to the scientific world tonight?
This probably has no real meaning to us now, but 30 years times, no one will be sitting on the side of the road eating an ice cream due to the hot sweaty levels of Palmidity.
Thoughts? Be Gentle!