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Jouster:
--- Quote from: JackTucky on July 19, 2007, 07:55:33 pm ---Best I know, the boilers and even A/C units in many NYC buildings run on steam. The utility company has always provided the steam via underground pipes. I guess it's cheaper to buy steam then to generate your own.
When you see NYC street shots in films or TV (seinfeld comes to mind) they always show steam billowing up from the sidewalk. When I was a kid, I used to run through those clouds. They weren't hot by the time they got up to the street, but you could feel the moisture.
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That's helpful because I had no idea about why they would be there either.
Here in Florida...if you need steam...you just throw some water on the road. It don't take long.
Jouster
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: grantspain on July 19, 2007, 06:14:08 pm ---i don't understand what a steam pipe is,we don't have them in the u.k-i have seen it in american films and could not understand why you would have steam coming from under the ground,someone explain please :dunno
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Yes you do - but only in certain places. Just like here.
Level42:
I've seen the steam in NYC when we visited, and I really wondered what it was for....
I understand now, but isn't it a bit stupid to run pressured hot steam through pipes from 1924 !?!?!?
ChadTower:
Not when they were built in 1924. Things that are working don't get torn up and rebuilt.
2600:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 20, 2007, 10:21:10 am ---
Not when they were built in 1924. Things that are working don't get torn up and rebuilt.
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Side discussion from the NY thing as I haven't been following it.
There suppose to as they have an expected lifespan. There are a lot of things that we take for granted right now that are over the expected lifespan and should of been replaced. Bridges, Water Pipes, etc. We don't want to pay for it right now or have it inconvenience us, but ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- is going to happen eventually
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