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Wood burning ovens for heating in city area should not be allowed, that is just idiotic. The amount of deaths and health issues that is going to cause is really nasty.
Is your claim still true when air filters are installed in the chimney?
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You want to do that with the cooler water that is coming back to the power plant after the heat is delivered to the customer. Thus you use lower value heat to melt the streets. Assuming you do combined heat & power, as a bonus you get a small benefit on the power cycle as you get colder water into the pwrturbine cooling.
The sidewalks are actually the tops of tunnels that carry power and steam in both directions.
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Which only makes more sense for the New York to be heated by a network of pipes.
A series of tubes, you say?
We actually do pipe some stuff around and it flows from one place to another.
Is the series of tubes so hilariously unimaginable for Americans?
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Yeah I'd hate having District heating. A friend had this in the past and she couldn't even regulate it. The house was way too hot for her. It would not work for me as I usually have the house around 16 degrees C in winter. Needless to say my energy bill is very low :)
> Yeah I'd hate having District heating. A friend had this in the past and she couldn't even regulate it. Interesting because I could regulate mine after all the radiators were replaced around 20 years ago. And I kind of had to because the workers installing them made a mistake and I got the radiator meant for the living room, so it was grossly oversized for the space it heated. That being said it's usually mandatory…
Yeah that was kinda the thing. She could technically close it but then the neighbours would complain.
I would hate that as most of the time I use no heating (or cooling) at all. Also, I wouldn't like to pay for it if I don't even use it.
PS: I live in a nicely mild-climated mediterranean coastal city so I can imagine "not using the heater" is not really a done thing if you live in Finland :)
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Great. How much energy do you spend clearing paths?
It's a fun set of optimisations: to get the path-clearing effect do you run the pipes on less optimal routes (greater capital costs), or do you using varying grades of insulation (less effective under paths to get the clearing effect, more effective on the short-cuts between paths), and so on. I hope Idaho uses these scenarios in their maths lessons, in place of the hoary "the phone company needs to put a line across…
Not all sidewalks are heated. It’s more like they paved the top of the service vaults.
I don’t recall this problem specifically but the university employs a lot of students and alums.
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I live on a small island in Iceland, too far across the sea to pipe Geothermal water to, so the town heats water electrically and pipes it to homes instead. It's not very efficient, and it is rather expensive. It's kind of interesting because there just aren't hot water heaters for sale here, and Icelandic homes are built with that assumption. I'm on the far side of the island from the plant, and in winter you can ab…
Is that because of heat losses getting to you, or because enough heat is being used to heat the houses that the overall temp is lower?