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Europe already has utility heating. I know I first heard of it from Cities Skylines and my first thought was "That sounds like a silly excuse to add another uti
by Nasrudith 6y ago
Europe already has utility heating. I know I first heard of it from Cities Skylines and my first thought was "That sounds like a silly excuse to add another utility." Then I looked it up and found it was a real thing. NYC has a steam network which has remarkable versatile functions - in addition to heating, resturant dish cleaning, and humidity control.
- imtringued 6y agoSilly excuse? What else are you going to do with the waste heat?
- entropicdrifter 6y agoI think that part of the comment was specific to the game Cities Skylines. Like, "Oh they added another utility to manage... wtf is this? I haven't ever heard of cities doing this." But then they looked it up and found out it's a real practice.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoThe weirdest "utility" I've ever heard of is centralized liquid soap pumping for the rest rooms in an office building. [1] https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/von-panzermotor-bis-kegelbahn-die-skurrilen-geheimnisse-dieses-hamburger-hochhauses-33701356 https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/von-panzermotor-bis-kegelbahn-di... <- Nr. 1: Zentrale Seifenspenderanlage Deepl: "In a high-rise building of this size there are many toilets and accordingly many soap dispensers that would have to be refilled. Not so with Euler-Hermes: a central dispenser in the basement is filled with 200 litres of liquid soap, and a pump "shoots" the cleaning agent with nine bar pressure into the 200 dispensers on 22 floors. Practical!" It is this building [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Euler_Hermes_building https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Euler_Hermes_bui... which is currently prepared for being torn down.