Re: [ga] Austerity measures

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:
> Perhaps the inflated time figures Elizabeth quoted
> have something to do with the
> fact that water takes longer to boil in high altitudes than it does
> at sea level?
You're going to hate me for this.   Water "boils" when it has
reached a temperature
at which its vapor pressure nearly matches that of the atmosphere.
Since atmospheric
pressure is lower at higher altitudes, water boils at a lower temperature. 
Thus, what
takes longer at higher altitudes is not getting the water to boil,
but rather the cooking,
since it occurs at a lower temperature.

So maybe that's why the cooking that takes so long, huh?  But how come we have
a higher altitude?

Never mind.

Bill Lovell