m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heatnews.mit.eduexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldinterestingshare@lemmy.ziphackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkIn a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heatnews.mit.edum3t00🌎@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldinterestingshare@lemmy.ziphackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoNo they literally state more water was evaporated than heat energy from the light could do by up to 3 times.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·10 months agoThat’s assuming some definition of heat that requires light absorbtion. This is still heat, because all motion of atoms is heat.
No they literally state more water was evaporated than heat energy from the light could do by up to 3 times.
That’s assuming some definition of heat that requires light absorbtion. This is still heat, because all motion of atoms is heat.