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Old cars often have deteriorating interiors(not my Honda) and I got to thinking why. Obviously the sun is a big culprit, the sun will fade dashes, make leather crack, plastic bubble, etc.

Why does this happen? Because all the moisture has been evaporated off the surface, it has essentially been dehydrated.

So, how do we keep things hydrated? With hydration of course, which then begs the question, how much hydration? Too much and your glass gets foggy on the inside and you start getting nasty musky/moldy smells, too little and the interior starts to degrade.

I mean if you put a small dixie cup in a car, and fill it 1/4 way, and leave the car parked in the sun, some of that water will evaporate to steam increasing the humidity in the cabin. Now humidity in the air does have the benefit of limiting radiative heating from the sun, and it also has the benefit of saturating interior parts limiting sun based dehydration. But there's the problem of smell and mustiness that comes from swamp weather.

Old cars often have deteriorating interiors(not my Honda) and I got to thinking why. Obviously the sun is a big culprit, the sun will fade dashes, make leather crack, plastic bubble, etc. Why does this happen? Because all the moisture has been evaporated off the surface, it has essentially been dehydrated. So, how do we keep things hydrated? With hydration of course, which then begs the question, how much hydration? Too much and your glass gets foggy on the inside and you start getting nasty musky/moldy smells, too little and the interior starts to degrade. I mean if you put a small dixie cup in a car, and fill it 1/4 way, and leave the car parked in the sun, some of that water will evaporate to steam increasing the humidity in the cabin. Now humidity in the air does have the benefit of limiting radiative heating from the sun, and it also has the benefit of saturating interior parts limiting sun based dehydration. But there's the problem of smell and mustiness that comes from swamp weather.

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Turbine section of jet engines.

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I see. So you don't have any experience in a steam plant...

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No but I have experience in vaporization and using steam to sterilize, as well as vapor trails caused by airplane wings, and cloud formation, hurricane formation, tornadoes, global weather patterns, and other aerodynamic phenomena. Let me assure you, even in the driest desert on earth, you will find water in the air.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6T3ICXWqjc

Sorry for the jew tube link but it makes the point for me.

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No but I have experience in vaporization and using steam to sterilize,

You and the millions that use an autoclave.

You're missing the point. Water vapor in the air isn't Steam. If you can't grasp that basic point, we're done here and you can simply go on believing whatever you want.

If Steam is simply water in the air, then every physics textbook is wrong and every power plant that relies on steam turbines is wrong. Your link for a free-air vapor condenser doesn't have anything to do with steam, those are as old as time itself.