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Originally Posted by TheDon
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very cool article don!
nothing is mentioned in the article about phase change heat requirements, or the speed and flow of phase change heat gain/loss. interesting. and the mention in the article about the actual temp of the freezing water in the cold/hot containers is also interesting, it's well known that motionless and impurity free water can be cooled FAR below the freezing point without changing state to ice, so it's conceivable that the hot water, due to Brownian motion has currents in place that continue as rapidly freezing causing the phase change at a rapider pace than the initially cold water would without the currents, but this would not explain why the hot water on his wheels freeze faster than the cold water on his hood...