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I remember doing that while living in Taiwan. At least the climate in Boston makes having lukewarm water more bearable. When you are sweating in a tropical summer the last thing you want is a warm glass of water.
I've found that hot tea is wonderful in warm weather. It's like you just stop pretending that a cold glass of water is going to make you any less hot & instead choose to enjoy the heat.
I remember doing that while living in Taiwan. At least the climate in Boston makes having lukewarm water more bearable. When you are sweating in a tropical summer the last thing you want is a warm glass of water.
This might be Myth Busters material, but wouldn't it be more energy efficient to drink water closer to the body's own temperature? Less energy is needed internally to process warm water, than to heat cold water up to 98.6 F. This is also similar to why it's bad to drink soft drink, the body consumes more water to break it down than it gains from the soft drink.
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At least Shaw's didn't multiply the price by ten. Sounds like the manager at Shaw's cleverly identified getting rid of all of his (probably profitless) bottled water as fast as possible (and posting a sign outside saying they're out) as the best way to prevent clogging the store with the hoarding hordes.
If there weren't laws against price gouging, I'm sure they would have strongly considered multiplying the price by 10.
Shaws will still be selling stuff long after this is over, but people will remember.
The contractor who built this water supply tunnel, which was finished only 7 years ago, is Modern Continental. http://www.mwra.com/osu/1003mwtfacts.html They were the Big Dig's largest contractor and are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy because federal prosecutors brought 49 charges against them including allegations that it knew about bolts coming loose in the ceiling of the Big Dig tunnel years before a ceiling collapse ki…
Something similar happened in Atlanta, where two structures built by Hardin Construction collapsed within a year, a pedestrian bridge in 2008 and a parking garage in 2009. I doubt they were getting much new business after that first collapse in 2008, but that still left a bunch of existing work, like the GT parking garage, already out there.
I could see a hour or two to identify the exact pipe, and locate the paperwork on where the valve is, but 8 hours?
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Yeah, according to people around MIT talking on zephyr we get our water from Fresh Pond.
Who uses Zephyr? Professors and staff who've been there a long time? I'm a grad student in CSAIL and have never once seen it in use.
I remember doing that while living in Taiwan. At least the climate in Boston makes having lukewarm water more bearable. When you are sweating in a tropical summer the last thing you want is a warm glass of water.
This might be Myth Busters material, but wouldn't it be more energy efficient to drink water closer to the body's own temperature? Less energy is needed internally to process warm water, than to heat cold water up to 98.6 F. This is also similar to why it's bad to drink soft drink, the body consumes more water to break it down than it gains from the soft drink.
I remember doing that while living in Taiwan. At least the climate in Boston makes having lukewarm water more bearable. When you are sweating in a tropical summer the last thing you want is a warm glass of water.
This might be Myth Busters material, but wouldn't it be more energy efficient to drink water closer to the body's own temperature? Less energy is needed internally to process warm water, than to heat cold water up to 98.6 F. This is also similar to why it's bad to drink soft drink, the body consumes more water to break it down than it gains from the soft drink.
The longest one can last without additional water is something like 3 days, no? http://health.howstuffworks.com/live-without-food-and-water.... (it gives a couple of citations but I haven't checked them, I tried the sciam.com one but it's paywalled) gives 3-5 days + 1 for a "healthy" person.
So if this assertion is right then drinking exclusively soft drinks for about 5 days will kill you. A simple experiment to do.
Anyone know why it took 8 hours to turn off the valve controlling the pipe? I could see a hour or two to identify the exact pipe, and locate the paperwork on where the valve is, but 8 hours?
Don't main pipes have flow monitors? In which case it could be almost automatic.
What IS it about Boston?