why humid is better!

[Gary Heuston]

can anyone provide any actual data or even proven scientific theory as to why
humidity would be either good or bad for power?  Personally I think the car runs
better when the air is dry but I would like to hear from some of the experts out
there...(i.e Greg could you elaborate on that please? =D  )

Gary
gary.heuston at afwa.af.mil



Greg Hermann wrote:

> At 11:25 PM 8/20/01, KasaRyan at aol.com wrote:
> >Here's my whack on it.  The water vapor in the air is in a finely divided
> >liquid state, not a gas, so when you heat it, it goes thru a phase change
> >into steam.  The resulting increase in volume is larger than if you took the
> >same amount of combustion calories and put it into air, which is already
> >behaving according to gas laws.  More volume=more push on the pistons= go
> >faster!
> >
> Nope!!
>
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