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kunegis@feddit.org to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York

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  • Cornpop@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They use a lot of steam for heating still

  • Ross@lemmy.world
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    Ah yes, the classic New York fog machine. Turns out it’s not for dramatic effect—just the city’s 19th-century steam system still doing its thing. Who needs modern infrastructure when you’ve got built-in Gotham vibes?

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    yo mama’s farts

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    deleted by creator

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    It’s from the streamed clams they’re having.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    The New York City steam system includes Con Edison’s Steam Operations, a piped steam system which provides steam to large parts of Manhattan. Other smaller systems provide steam to New York University and Columbia University, and many individual buildings in New York City also have their own steam systems. The steam is used to heat and cool buildings and for cleaning and disinfecting. It is the largest such system in the world and has been in operation since 1882.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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      Wow this makes me realise why so many movies set in New York I watched in the 80’s and 90’s often had steam coming up from the ground.

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      We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now unfortunately

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        We have these in Lansing MI too! Part of the Satanic Panic back in the 80s involved kids playing D&D down in parts of the steam tunnels under MSU, which, I’m told, is much harder to do now unfortunately very fortunately since children don’t know how to look out for a superheated steam leak and it was only a matter of time before a child got fucking bisected

        Ftfy

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      Wow, that was quite a read, thanks. Amazing technology

      • ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Amazing for the 1800s

      • jaxxed@lemmy.ml
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        Whole parts of Eastern Europe still transport Steam for heating.

        • FleetingTit@feddit.org
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          What you think of is district heating, it (usually) just uses warm/hot water instead of steam.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    Ooh. I know this one. Parts of NYC still use a steam heating system that was first designed in the late 1800’s:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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      Thank you. There’s so many people responding with unhelpful answers.

      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world
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        Ummm. It’s called the “Free Exchange of Information and ideas”. It’s about time you got used to it, Boomer. It was all your idea.

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          Wtf? Bad form, Peter Pan.

        • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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          I’ve never been called a boomer before, I’m far from it. Let me exchange a free idea and information; you’re a fucking moron.

          • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world
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            Sorry to have hurt your millennial feelings.

            • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
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              No feeling hurt here. Quite the opposite. Again, allow me express my “free exchange of information and ideas” and my somewhat amused feelings; You’re a fucking moron!

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                Don’t feed the troll, ignore and move on.

              • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world
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                And you, sir, are an accomplished wordsmith! I mean, “fucking moron” twice? Brilliant! Thank you for you contributions!

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      Wow that’s neat

      • Mr Poletski@feddit.uk
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        3 months ago

        No, that’s heat.

        • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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          Yeet the heat or beat the meat

          • WordBox@lemmy.world
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            Yeet the meat not the heat.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You should tell this guy.

      https://youtube.com/shorts/_MAXlkWLpfM

  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world
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    There’s a lot of things under the streets of New York, many of them cause heat. In order to cool them off the heat is vented outside and the warm moist air meets with the cool dry air and condensates into droplets that we see as steam. Same affect as breathing out on a cold day, you’re not creating steam but it looks that way because the warm moist air from your breath is condensing in the cool dry air.

    • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Could you name one thing that would cause heat under streets? It’s kinda hard to believe tbh

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        Pipes transferring steam.

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      • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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        When you take a hot shower where do you think that water is going?

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          Wouldn’t it cool off in the sewer, though?

          • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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            Yes but hot water continues to flow in.

            And it doesn’t need to stay very hot. It just needs to be warmer than the outside air temperature in order for vapor to form.

            The ground and continuous hot water input keeps everything insulated.

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              But cold water is also continuously flowing in. And as someone said, it perhaps cools down quickly. Is that all and all enough for such a dense vapor cloud to appear as in pic?

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                If it is colder above ground, than the ambient temperature of the ground, IIRC that’s somewhere in the 50° F range, and less humid than the sewers, sure.

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                More hot water than cold water is flowing in. It’s a simple thermodynamics problem

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                  How so, or do you just wanna sound smart

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system#%3A~%3Atext=Con+Edison's+Steam+Operations+is%2Cbuildings+and+businesses+in+Manhattan.

      • WordBox@lemmy.world
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        Subway brakes.

        • dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Ehhhhhhhh

          • WordBox@lemmy.world
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            Ask London.

            https://hackaday.com/2024/12/04/the-london-underground-is-too-hot-but-its-not-an-easy-fix/

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    Denzel movie used the steam pipes

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145681

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    New sewer pope

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    Sewer mutants cooking up some grub.

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    What the other comments aren’t mentioning is that, as you’ve probably learned, poops steam. Put a lot of poops under the ground (i.e. sewers) and that steam has to go somewhere, due to various complex thermodynamic principles that are probably beyond the scope of this question.

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      Despite the fact that poo steams if it is really cold outside, I have a strong suspicion they did not build a smoke stack to release a cloud of shit-smelling steam in the city.

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        Based on media set in New York, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

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      It’s not poop. It’s people running hot water. That hot water needs to go somewhere and that somewhere are the sewers.

      Hot water flowing through the sewers is warmer than the air temps. The air being vented from the sewers is also hot because of the water.

      As the hot air comes into contact with cold air outside of the sewers you see vapor form as the cold air squeezes condensation from the hot air.

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      With respect, I believe you may have confused New York with Cleveland.

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    It’s not steam. It’s smoke from wood fired pizza ovens for the turtle men that live there. There was a cartoon documentary about them on tv a few years back.

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      I never thought of them eating artisan pizzas. I always figured they’d get some shitty dominos.

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        Ew, gross. They live in a sewer, but they’re not animals.

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          They’re teenagers, taste doesn’t factor in much after cost and availability.

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          Have you never seen the movie? The only pizza they ate was from Domino’s.

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            And in every other piece of media, it isn’t?

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        They wouldn’t do dominos they’d probably get a variation of Rays famous near them

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            Product placement in a movie doesn’t count

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            90s dominos also isn’t today’s dominos.

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              90s Dominos was trash. Even Dominos recognized old Dominos was trash.

              • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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                Truth. Whatever they did 10-15 years ago made it tolerable. Not great, but tolerable.

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                  I delivered for two locations shortly after they fixed the pizza. In both locations, shift leads and managers came up with so many excuses for house pizza. More than any other chain I worked for. I didn’t connect the dots until later. The pizza must have been much worse before.

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                  I actually liked the crust after the change. It’s not great, but it was better than most other chains.

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        They seem to have the only people willing to deliver to a drainage hole.

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    It’s the ancient horrors beyond description, that are buried underneath the city, that are having indigestion.

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    There’s C.H.U.D.s down there…https://youtu.be/BJckCjZ8Tdw?si=mv2SGgDhgerDQil8

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