Posted on 04/24/2015 6:57:46 AM PDT by Lockbox
Water is heated to make steam to heat City Hall and 170 other nearby buildings. Although City Hall reuses most of its portion, a quarter million gallons a day goes wasted. Good drinking water which ends up in the sewer. It’s a system that is more than 80 years old.
“This system has been set up in the city for many decades, as far as this steam loop. It doesn’t rely on fossil fuels or natural gas to heat these buildings. So in that sense it’s good,” Jue said
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
WHAT A LIE.. Per NRG "All boilers are fueled 100 percent by natural gas"
http://www.nrg.com/business/large-business/distributed-generation/district-heating-cooling/san-francisco/
You may understand that, but the people who vote don’t.
That steam is produced from unicorn farts!
More Jue lies!
Put a sweater on. No boiling of water and burning of fossil fuels. Funny how the most liberal city in California has already found a loophole to deny others and to misuse water and fossil fuels and be arrogant about it.
Just like Hillary taking money from foreign countries and selling off US assets
Yeah, but what’s more ironic is how they openly welcome an endless supply of immigration while saying that they can only supply for so many people. Silly dolts!
I love that “the party of science” doesn’t understand where steam comes from.
As a matter of thermal efficiency, you would think the system would be set up as a closed loop but a system that is 80 years old might well be open loop as efficiency wasn’t as important then.
However, normally boiler feed water is run through a deaerator to removed dissolved air (reduces rusting by removing the oxygen) and treated to reduce scale buildup. At least, this is true for steam boilers; not certain if that is the case for district hot water plants, although one would think it would be helpful to keep the pipes clean.
Many California areas/towns/cities have laws against brown lawns. There are fines & increasing fines.
Glendora just fined a couple $500 for their brown lawn, in the midst of a mandatory 35% cut in water usage.
Stupid just isn’t a good enough word for the idiots running all the governments in California.
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