Steam Tables: Specific Enthalpy vs. Specific Entropy

Enthalpy is what one has to put in to get to the pressure and temperature the table says: sensible heat (temperature) plus latent heat (phase change), referenced to the zero point on the scale, which is usually defined as the triple point. So, if one wants, say, saturated steam at 2 barg, then 2706.2kJ of energy has to be supplied, relative to the zero point, for every kg of steam made. It's also the amount of energy that comes out, relative to the zero point, for every kg of steam that condenses and cools to the zero point. It has immediate, daily, practical uses for doing energy balances on all sorts of things that have water/steam in them, and can be used to calculate the thermodynamic efficiency of those operations should the need arise.

As far as this CR4 subscriber's experience is concerned, the number of times that entropy figures from the tables have been practically useful in the last 30-odd years may be counted on the fingers of one hand, not including the thumb _{<scratches around to revise entropy from a textbook on thermodynamics.....>}. Perhaps other readers will enlighten and educate?