Saturday, September 17, 2005

Why Can't they Just Boil the Water?




After the inital Katrina disaster, Geoff asked me why the relief workers were shipping water into New Orleans when it seemed they already had more than they needed.

"Why can't they just boil it?"

I explained, but the photo goes it justice.

This is your drinking water on entropy. Any questions?

1 comment:

Brian Dunbar said...

Probably take more energy to boil the water than they have available. Electricity is out. The wood is soggy. And so on.