WATER ADDITIVE

Mike T., Swampeast MO

SCREW UP!!! Sorry!

I wrote "salt" thinking you'd asked about making water more conductive to electricity. Doh!!!

Water is already highly conductive to heat. While I suppose there are some exotic/expensive materials that could be used, I've never heard of anything common that could increase water's heat conduction.

john_181

WATER ADDITIVE

Is there any addidtve to add to a hot water boiler system to make the water more conductive to heat?

Just a thought.

Roland_4

Water Additive

How about this stuff. I know nothing about it. Been available for years.

http://www.redlineoil.com/whitePaper/17.pdf

Mike T., Swampeast MO

"Waterwetter" doesn't increase water's thermal conduction, it decreases its surface tension (soap does the same thing). Under heavy loads in internal combustion engines the Waterwetter is said to reduce the size of the insulating vapor bubbles formed by "localized" boiling against the engine block. While I'm not positive, I don't believe this happens at all in a properly functioning hot water heating systems where you intentionally keep sufficient flow through the boiler to keep the problem from occuring to begin with.

There's always that freakish Helium II (liquid helium near absolute zero). Almost infinitely conductive to heat which I [think] means that vast amounts of heat will pass through it nearly instantly without being able to be detected in the Helium II itself.

I still wonder if the radiant burner of the Vitodens 200 manages to do this--to a MUCH smaller but still noticeable degree--through ordinary water.