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HeRulesWithARubberFist
School of Mines?
verbeckpaul1960
At least the Coor’s factory is doing something for the school because their beer sucks!
E1evenChar1ie
School of Mines??
SilverNicktail
When I moved to North America, I thought the weird clouds coming from city pavements were moody movie effects that became tradition. NOPE.
ssomed
https://www.cityofholland.com/879/Snowmelt-System
RabidDingo
Mines?
Seminole4ever
When I was young we only had one hot meal a day: a bowl of steam.
seyne
Mine had something similar, but produced the steam themselves in a power plant on campus and used it to heat the older dorms too
emilytangerine8910
Well la dee fricking dah
pirohyprincess
Helluva engineers ;)
defnoops
"They buy the steam"... fucking capitalism
conkles
I, too, wish I had a barrel of rum and sugar 300 pounds. The college bell to mix it in and clapper stir it round.
boodloop
That’s NAU. I ate shit on my longboard not too far from where this picture was taken.
Beepity
That college is helping the Coors factory out at the beginning *and* end of its production chain
jadanks
Prevents them from getting sued by slip and fall cases in the winter as well…
AnOldDude
My university made their own electricity and the waste heat warmed the dormitories. I got to go into the steam tunnels. Neat!
themuttonisniceandlean
Northern Arizona University runs heated pipes under the walking pathways also. Very nice in winter.
MotherOfSmoosh
Is this Howard CC?
azazyel
WSU had the same thing
PeaTearGriffon
Go raiders
azazyel
Cougs
Swashbuckler101
My naval base did this too
FranxNBeans
Grew up in a house with boiler heat. The runoff was diverted under the paved driveway. You could stand barefoot on the driveway in winter.
SinStar87
I mean, can do that without the runoff, just not as nice.
khora
That’s true for all driveways.
zenoshogun
The only difference is how many toes you leave behind.
FantomNemisis
My great grandma had this, made for a super nice ice sheet in the roadway
FranxNBeans
Went directly into the ditch across the street. Kept the street in front of our house clear too.
FantomNemisis
Yeah probably more of a drainage issue than anything else
JasonianCarrot
School of Mines I assume! I lived in Golden for years.
snapperwhip
School of Mines in Golden, CO!!
Flyinglasagnamonster
They’re actually plumbed into the campus restrooms running to the Coors factory. The steaming bits go to the local gov offices
brickius
They did the same with Budweiser - plumber the urinals straight into the vats
OnyxTurret
Was coming in with a similar joke. Have an upper!
smallpoxrandolph
Hahahaha nice!
labyrinthconvention
is it tho
warhawk7
How much does it cost to buy 1 steam?
AntRam95
Don’t buy 1 steam, it’s cheaper to buy in bulk
ufoara
Would think they do much more than just melt a foot path.
Frazzledragon
The steam is used for heating of buildings and water in general. The pipes just happen to be under this path.
maddeninglemon
Presumably it's not using steam 24/7, in which case this is way better than using gas powered equipment like most other places do.
CrazyViruss
Like turn a turbine and generate electricity without all the fuss and muss of playing with atoms? Yep, agreed
youfshw2
Perfect, then we use that electricity to heat the walkway so it won't freeze. Can't imagine Thermodynamics would have any issues with that.
Walfas
You need pretty high pressure to do that, and I doubt the output of that factory is high pressure.
ferafish
I mean, you still use steam and turbines in a nuclear power plant. You just fuck about with atoms to make the heat that makes the steam.
Filanwizard
Technically a nuclear powered container ship could use SS instead of MV then. SS stood for Steam Ship.
davidlynchmob
School of Mines?
cardogg
Their sides are the tops of the utility tunnels that run steam to each building, same concept.
Hambonerhandy
I always like seeing people who've never been to an older city freak out at the steam coming from all the manhole covers.
RisingPhoenix92
To be fair that steam can smell bad sometimes, usually gets a reaction
WholesomeAsFuck
Slightly unrelated but I once called the fire service because I thought I saw smoke coming from. the flat under mine, t
WholesomeAsFuck
turned out to be steam from the building's central heating
MotherfuckingJesseEisenburg
I've seen that in movies and have been curious why it happens.
Hambonerhandy
Back in the day when they were building power plants they'd run steam lines all over the cities for heat. A lot of buildings still use it.
Hambonerhandy
It's a pretty efficient way of using the waste energy from the plants, I guess nowadays power plants aren't built in the middle of cities.
martyroflittlefaith
NAU?
fluffypigslippers
Is it really true Flagstaff does that?
martyroflittlefaith
NAU did when I went there. I fucking miss that town
fluffypigslippers
I drove through it this weekend to camp in Williams for a Grand Canyon trip
CamWeBeFriends
@OP, is this CSM?
CazzaM18
Seems like something an engineer would think of
rippinro
Yes
OklahomaDaddy
I graduated in 2010, campus sure looks a lot different now. What degree program?
GuestChrist
For the rest of us, what is CSM please?
chanterella22
I think Colorado School of Mines?
loopdesigns
Colorado School of Mines
Tdubbs07
I went to South Dakota school of mines!
VenomSnek
As long as it's not Colorado School of Mimes.
SeeMyVests
Yeah fuck them, they can freeze
RadiDaddy
The 1st rule of the Colorado School of Mimes is nobody talks at the Colorado School of Mimes.
labyrinthconvention
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Because the 1st rule of Mimes is nobody talks.
Shpielers
JFC, when I got in and told people where I was going, this is the only thing they heard.
Tdubbs07
Same.