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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
You can certainly use this to generate a lot of hydraulic pressure without a hydraulic pump. So it'd be extremely useful in, say, a MacGuyver episode. In fact it probably has already been used in one.
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I believe in the first season, he uses the principle to escape from a locked freezer. He melted ice with the lightbulb and guided the trickling stream into the lock. When the water refroze, the pressure of expansion broke the lock.
Still waiting on the Mythbusters to test it.
This phenomenon could be helpful in certain circumstances. There are more obscure and inefficient machines that have found their niche.