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Drains in varous London roads were emitting clouds of steam tonight. Why tonight, when they don't normally do this? -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
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John Rowland:
Drains in varous London roads were emitting clouds of steam tonight. Why tonight, when they don't normally do this? Cleaning time? http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/cleaning.htm Does London have a system of steam mains that provide winter heating to various buildings, as some cities do? -- Mark Brader | "...most people who borrow over $1,000,000 from a bank Toronto | would at least remember the name of the bank." | -- Judge Donald Bowman, Tax Court of Canada |
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 05:16:23 -0000, (Mark Brader) wrote:
Does London have a system of steam mains that provide winter heating to various buildings, as some cities do? There was hydraulic power until quite recently. http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...on/index.shtml Battersea Power Station used to pipe hot water under the Thames to provide heating to Dolphin Square and Pimlico. But I don't know of any large-scale steam system. New York has one. |
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Laurence Payne writes:
There was hydraulic power until quite recently. We know that! Battersea Power Station used to pipe hot water under the Thames to provide heating to Dolphin Square and Pimlico. But I don't know of any large-scale steam system. I see. -- Mark Brader, Toronto "Let us knot coin gnu werds huitch are spelld rong." -- Rik Fischer Smoody |
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Laurence Payne wrote: Battersea Power Station used to pipe hot water under the Thames to provide heating to Dolphin Square and Pimlico. When the station closed thiis was replaced by a coal-fired boiler house between the power station and the railway. This was later converted to 'dual', I assume gas and oil, firing according to its sign. Quite recently this was demolished, does anyone know what has now replaced it? But I don't know of any large-scale steam system. New York has one. Many New York drains seem to be steaming, whatever the weather. They also have strange orange and white 'barber's pole' striped chimneys, for want of a better word, maybe two metres high, which can be seen sticking up in the middle of the road. They look quite temporary. I've also seen large, cylinders of liqiid gas, Nitrogen I think, on street corners, chained to a pole of some sort, with the gas being piped underground. I think this was being done by Verizon (telephones), so pipe freezing doesn't seem likely. Any ideas? |
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"Furles" write:
I've also seen large, cylinders of liqiid gas, Nitrogen I think, on street corners, chained to a pole of some sort, with the gas being piped underground. I think this was being done by Verizon (telephones), so pipe freezing doesn't seem likely. ... I noticed this myself the last time I was in New York, and had a chance to ask a Verizon technician about it. It's simple cooling; the gas cools as it expands on leaving the cylinder. As I recall what the man told me, that they do it if the underground electronics are found to be overheating. One cylinder lasts about a week. I didn't ask why they use nitrogen, because that was obvious. It won't support combustion and thus helps suppress any fire that might start due to the overheating, and it's relatively cheap. -- Mark Brader | "It never occurred to me that a living person could be Toronto | used as a blowtorch, but we admit human beings are a | bit special, don't we?" --Hal Clement: STILL RIVER My text in this article is in the public domain. |
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In message . com,
writes Laurence Payne wrote: Battersea Power Station used to pipe hot water under the Thames to provide heating to Dolphin Square and Pimlico. When the station closed thiis was replaced by a coal-fired boiler house between the power station and the railway. This was later converted to 'dual', I assume gas and oil, firing according to its sign. Quite recently this was demolished, does anyone know what has now replaced it? I always thought that the excess heat from Battersea was used to heat homes on the Churchill Estate in Pimlico but not Dolphin Square. Have I been misinformed? -- Ian Jelf, MITG Birmingham, UK Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk |
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Ian Jelf wrote: In message . com, writes Laurence Payne wrote: Battersea Power Station used to pipe hot water under the Thames to provide heating to Dolphin Square and Pimlico. When the station closed thiis was replaced by a coal-fired boiler house between the power station and the railway. This was later converted to 'dual', I assume gas and oil, firing according to its sign. Quite recently this was demolished, does anyone know what has now replaced it? I always thought that the excess heat from Battersea was used to heat homes on the Churchill Estate in Pimlico but not Dolphin Square. Have I been misinformed? Yes. Dolphin Square was built first - in the 1930s, shortly after Battersea Power Station, so the pipe under the Thames carrying the excess heat was built for it; Churchill Gardens was built after the war and it was realised that there was still excess heat so the system was extended to cover it. -- http://www.election.demon.co.uk "We can also agree that Saddam Hussein most certainly has chemical and biolog- ical weapons and is working towards a nuclear capability. The dossier contains confirmation of information that we either knew or most certainly should have been willing to assume." - Menzies Campbell, 24th September 2002. |
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