That’s literally not possible. It may be heat that we don’t have sensitive enough equipment to detect but light is energy and it hitting the water will release heat.
I mean that’s literally what this study has shown. So it is indeed completely possible.
I don’t think you have the grasp on things that you think you do. I’m not in the mood nor do I have the time to have a beginners class on this so I suggest you do some reading on your own and learn how to analyze things and come to your own conclusions. Way way too many studies are straight up faked at worst, at best they are tweaked and results that say something different are thrown out or ignored.
By this logic, when we heat up food or drinks in the microwave we are not using heat at all. We are in fact generating heat as the water molecules are excited by the energy in the radio waves being transmitted towards whatever is in the microwave. For those who may not know, radio waves are just light we can’t see because our eyes don’t have whats needed to see them.
You know what. Ignore everything I said above and keep on keeping on. Stay ignorant and full of yourself. See how far that gets you in life.
I hope you lack the time because you’re setting up your own study. This one was set up due to previous observations of rates of evaporation double or greater than those understood to be mathematically possible. Hell of an equipment error. It also observes a difference in the rate of evaporation under different colors of light, with the highest rate of evaporation occurring under green light, which you would probably also deem impossible, since color has nothing to do with it and green isn’t even the most energetic wavelength. An MIT professor, a postdoc, and four others hang their hat on these results, and the reality of this phenomenon. rdyoung disagrees with them in a comments section on an obscure forum. Which source might be more credible?
First, being rude makes you look like you don’t know what you’re talking about. Condescension in technology and science is very ‘last century’.
Second, you’re right. This article is a bad translation at best. If the light interacted with the water in any way that produced motion and caused evaporation, that motion IS heat.
They probably mean to say that they can evaporate water directly with light without having to use a heating element or something non-water to absorb the light. That’s my best guess at translating a poorly written article at least.