Please don't apologize - I'm just trying to work this through, and I appreciate any help or clarification.
It seemed to me that in a fully closed system what you're saying would make sense. But it's not a closed system -- there is some amount of cooling (I don't know how to estimate that --...
We've been discussing what it takes to get a sauna to heat to 240F. Most sauna heaters will have some stones to provide mass to hold heat. The question is whether lots of stone mass will make it easier to reach higher temperatures.
My argument is that it does. Imagine heating a room using a...