CPT Q. 062: Is water’s large heat of vaporization also a problem for CPT, as it is for canopy models?

calendar Apr 1, 2012 by John Baumgardner · plate tectonics  ·
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CPT 62 Q. #62 – 101 Questions and Answers Concerning Catastrophic Plate Tectonics

Q. 62. One of the problems with canopy theories is the latent thermal energy in their collapse. How would the descending water from the steam jets be different if it had been boosted into space?

Response: Water vapor, in order to fall as rain, must lose 540 calories per gram or 2260 kJ/kg at 100° C, which is a whopping amount of latent thermal energy. However, if the water remains in liquid form, as is the case of ocean water entrained by the jets and then carried into the stratosphere, it has no need to lose any latent heat of vaporization in order to fall back to the earth as rain. So this major difficulty for the vapor canopy theories does not apply to the water entrained by the jets in the CPT framework.