EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENERGY AND WATER

摘要

There is a Scandinavian legend about how the sea became salty. The story involves a miraculous mill that would grind out anything its owner commanded. The mill was acquired by a sea captain who did not test out his new possession until he was out at sea. Far from land, he took out the mill and commanded it to grind out salt for the meal. Unfortunately for him and his crew, the mill did just as he commanded and soon the ship began to fill with salt. Unbeknownst to him, the mill needed one command word to begin but a second command word to stop. The captain had no choice but to throw the mill into the sea lest his boat capsize. The stone mill sank to the bottom of the ocean and there continues to magically produce salt to this day.