Upvoted for stupidity (do the googles my ninja)

NYC Steam System

Desktop version of /u/ContextFlaky's link: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system>

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Yeah… it’s normal here, though not universally normal. So not as stupid as you thought it was. Sorry.

More interestingly: had anybody actually seen somewhere that used their steam cooling?

Here's a video that talks about it.

https://youtu.be/QRKzA8JlYBU

If you could see inside mechanical spaces of buildings, you'd see it.

Not a dumb question, still upvoting because you told me not to.

It’s more prevalent in the winter from what I’ve seen, has more to do with the difference in temperature as well.

Upvoted cause I like this idiot.

It's from all the pizza the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are eating.

it's why they're called dirty water dogs

Real estate. Basements are too valuable to use the space for heaters and boilers. Buildings are supplied heat by century plus old cast iron pipes that leak all the time. Eventually the whole system will be replaced and it will be a part of city lore.

Rebel, I like you. What next? Don't give the award?

Edit: I shouldn't said that

I hope it doesn't get replaced it's the most efficient system we have. Old school district heating but steam instead of water

Very old heating system still in use

It’s literal farts

The city is built on top of one large meth factory

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A fair number of universities do this around the country.

It’s more efficient to have a steam plant than to have separate systems in each building. You get both heat and cooling with just a small steam plant on campus.

You save not just in energy, but also maintenance. If you have dozens of buildings each with several AC and furnaces, it’s a lot to keep running and replace every 20 years. Cranes needed for roof units etc. Steam systems are simple systems mechanically.

There’s likely other places where it’s economical to do this, but that’s the one that stands out in my mind.

If you went to a college with a large campus, there’s a decent chance they used steam.

Lol. No. No time soon. There are still buildings running on DC on the UWS too.

Looks like there are a lot of benefits, why not use this system everywhere?

once in a whole it blows really hard and blows exactly where you wanna go, and you can use that opportunity to walk a little slow and come out of the vapors like you're in a slow-motion action shot.

don't tell me what to do

One of my least fav sensations is the moist heat of one of those steams wafting over your body