It's snowing!

[watervole]

I appreciate this isn't exactly a novelty for most of you, but here in Dorset we see snow about once a decade.

It's now up to a massive 3mm in depth!

(so now you can all tell me about how it reaches six foot drifts where you live...)

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[johnrw.livejournal.com]

The humungous pipes which criss cross Northwich weirded me out at first (the kids and cats use the one over the brook as a crossing into the fields) particularly when they steam but I'm used to them now

The insulated silver and/or green or the cast iron ones?
The insulated ones save approximately 35 million in energy costs each year. The cast iron are rather less benign.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Ours is one of the old ones, cast iron I think but it's also insulated, except where the kids have picked the tar off to write graphitti.
I don't worry overmuch, my last company built the very high tech Thor Chemicals plant across the canal, there are loads of chemical plants round here.

The insulated ones transport steam or hot water from one plant to the other, don't they?

FF

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

The insulated ones transport steam or hot water from one plant to the other, don't they?


Steam, iirc there's a CHP station (it hasn't been their that long, BM recycled part of one of their sites to build it. The fun thing was the palaver about 'industrial heritage', the place was collapsing from corrosion anyway!) to provide power for the Solvay process, most of the steam is used at the other plant. even with a couple of miles of pipework they reckon the system is 80% effecient plus they get security of supply.