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webmatt5 Noble Donor location: Omaha, Nebraska Gender: Male \|	Does your town have steam tunnels? IDEA might tell you... < on 4/28/2004 9:04 PM >

	http://www.districtenergy.org/ is the home page of the International District energy Association. District Energy is the process of generating steam/chilled water at one location and selling it to a bunch of customers. Usually this steam/water is distributed through steam tunels. So...take a look and see if there is an IDEA member in your town. If so, they may well have a nice, big steam tunnel network. OR maybe all of their pipes are just buried in the ground and you're SOL. It still might be worth a look. [last edit 4/29/2004 5:06 AM by webmatt5 - edited 1 times]

PonyGrl420 location: NY Gender: Female huh?? \| \| \|	Re: Does your town have steam tunnels? IDEA might tell you... <Reply # 1 on 4/28/2004 9:49 PM >

	Cool, 2 in Vegas. My experience with steam tunnels isn’t too great. I use them as a way from getting building to building at sites and that’s usually it. How would I go about finding them? I know they usually have something sticking out if the ground to release heat and pressure, but I haven’t seen any. Hrmm maybe my buddy who works for the town will know, he told me where the good drains are, but im still tryin to get the balls to go in after I saw how quick that place floods.

tick

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Abingdon, VA
Gender: Male

Re: Does your town have steam tunnels? IDEA might tell you...
<Reply # 2 on 4/29/2004 2:19 AM >

Posted by PonyGrl420
How would I go about finding them?

Most steam tunnel systems have grates or vents to allow for air circulation. So if you feel warm air coming from a grate next to a sidewalk, there's probably a steam tunnel underneath. Watching for paths of melted snow works, but only when the tunnels are near the surface, and when the sidewalks haven't been salted. A good way to find steam tunnels is to go around from building to building looking for basement-level mechanical rooms that have tunnel access.

nostra-YOUPPI! Umpire location: Shahre:'on Kaybec Bonsoir et cest partie \|	Re: Does your town have steam tunnels? IDEA might tell you... <Reply # 3 on 4/29/2004 2:24 AM >

	but also in montreal we do have steam tunnels but they are not laid out in any way normal. they were originally put in to hook all the railways buildings together now they connect other places. but as for grates the ones we have are transformer grates and they are hot Montreal Expos 1969-2004 Forever Proud Lets Keep The Dream Alive

Ricotta

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Houston, TX
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De arimasu~

Re: Does your town have steam tunnels? IDEA might tell you...
<Reply # 4 on 4/29/2004 8:09 AM >

Dude! Check out the program for the conference coming up in Seattle!

The conference will conclude with tours of the University of Washington centeral plant and our main Seattle Steam facility.

I am so fucking there.

Ranger187

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NY/PA/NV
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Re: Does your town have steam tunnels? IDEA might tell you...
<Reply # 5 on 5/1/2004 6:32 AM >

Posted by tick

Most steam tunnel systems have grates or vents to allow for air circulation. So if you feel warm air coming from a grate next to a sidewalk, there's probably a steam tunnel underneath. Watching for paths of melted snow works, but only when the tunnels are near the surface, and when the sidewalks haven't been salted. A good way to find steam tunnels is to go around from building to building looking for basement-level mechanical rooms that have tunnel access.

Hehe, too bad there is no snow (here in Vegas), and hardly anywhere has basements not to mention there is warm air everywhere here. Haha!

Too bad it was only 80 today.. Blah..
[last edit 5/1/2004 6:33 AM by Ranger187 - edited 1 times]

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