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

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨kunegis@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Rosscameron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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  • udon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    yo mama’s farts

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  • Bubs12@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s where they cook the Nuts4Nuts

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  • Cornpop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They use a lot of steam for heating still

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  • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the breath of millions of poops.

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  • Missmuffet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They might be smoke testing the system, looking for leaks! Smoke is pumped into water pipe infrastructure and leaks out of potential cracks or undisclosed/illegal sources (such as a company dumping into the sewer system without disclosing it to the city). They do this so they can locate and fix these sources so the water remains uncontaminated by groundwater seepage.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Volcano under the city

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hundred plus year old infrastructure.

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hot. Moist. Air.

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    • supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      it’s steam not air

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      • Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can’t see steam. It’s not visible to the naked eye.

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      • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No it is Moist. Air.

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  • Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You know how when rocks take off in Florida there’s lots of smoke?

    Yeah there’s a tunnel that goes from Florida to New York that the smoke goes through to help heat up the New York streets. So anytime you see smoke in New York it’s cause a rocket was recently shot up in Florida. Technology Infrastructure is incredible!

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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s the steam from the melting pot

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There’s a really good explanation here:

    youtu.be/QRKzA8JlYBU

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Volcanism

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Steam from the steamed hams we’re having

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    • habitualcynic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And you call them that even though they are obviously grilled?

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      • kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        excuse me for a minute

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  • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Believe it or not. Very old infrastructure in the city. Still runs on steam power.

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I swear I thought this answer was about as accurate as the one that said “dragons”.

      How steampunk for probably the largest city in the world to use steam in this day and age? I love it…

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      • PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m going to have to interject, NYC is the 11th largest city.

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  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I immediately thought of this tune for some reason.

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    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the tune I thought of (apologies for linking a YT short, but it was the only version I could find)

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  • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not smoke. It’s a space station.

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s no moon, it’s… oh, wait… shit.

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  • Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    See it in Kansas City usually in the winter.

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  • Fakespeare@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAfAUhVNLG

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The CHUDs are having a BBQ. Guess the markets closed for the day.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it’s important, at this point, to differentiate between NYC CHUDs, and your common racist shitbag chud. NYC CHUDs are many things, but not racist dickbags.

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m just referencing the movie, but if you think that there not racists in NYC, you haven’t talk to enough New Yorkers.

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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Old steam heating system. They vent it when they’re working on a section.

    Side-note: surprised by all the fellow New Yorkers i’m seeing in this thread. I thought yous were still at the other place.

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    • TBi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wonder if they could make it more efficient by running at a lower temperature and installing water source heat pumps in buildings. youtu.be/abGiNL9IT54

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      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s a good idea! My understanding is that the old stream network is slated for decommission and replacement by this program, basically a large distributed geothermal heat pump network that also harvests from major heat producers like data centers and provides both heating and cooling.

        It will end the era of the steamy-street Sin City aesthetic but should be many, many times more efficient than the old steam system. Phase-change thermal transfer in HVAC systems is currently as much as 400% more efficient than the theoretical limit of direct heating, because it only uses the energy necessary to move heat from one place to another rather than produce it, and it works for both heating and cooling.

        Right now I believe they’re piloting the system in NYCHA buildings (public housing) of neighborhoods outside the old steam network, like Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen, but supposedly the plan is to expand to the rest of Manhattan.

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    • DelightfullyDivisive@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. Detroit has this, too.

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      • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s common enough I figured most knew, but a few years ago I went ice skating at the bryant park rink with this girl who refused to walk anywhere near the steam. She thought they were toxic and didn’t accept my explanation, so we had to walk an extra few blocks to get around the steam work. Shrug

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  • anotherpurpleheathen@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Something’s happening in Zaun.

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  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Teenage mutant ninja turtles barbeque

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  • PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s just toxic gas bubbling up from the ruins of Old New York that New York is built on top of. The mutants down there are a steampunk society.

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some big cities originally heated their buildings by producing steam in one one centralized building and delivering it to large buildings thru pipes underground. The steam you see is from leaking pipes in this antiquated infrastructure. It’s a very inefficient method if you ask me. Cities should offer these buildings low interest loans so they can update and be independent but they never take my advice

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Boy, I sure love it when dip shits act like they’re from Reddit and talk about stuff they know absolutely nothing about, why don’t you shove your foot in your mouth and stop typing

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    • Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      District level heating is actually pretty efficient, some universities do the same thing on purpose to save on bills. Our relatively young city does it with the downtown skyscrapers for the same reason.

      The other nice thing is that when you upgrade the heating system to be less carbon intensive, you can instantly have a ton of buildings all jump instantly to fewer emissions too.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Afaik it’s not inefficient if the heating is done via fossil fuels as big furnaces (especially in the past, especially turbo-fan super-fine grind coal ones) are much more efficient than smol ones for individual buildings (even if the buildings are giant).

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      • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s terribly inefficient. The efficiency is lost when the steam that condenses back into hot water is lost and none of it is returned to the boiler to be reheated. Rather than reheating this returning water which normally is at 120-160 degrees Fahrenheit, fresh water is used which in the winter here is around 56 degrees. Aside from this the cold water taken in contains impurities such as dissolved gasses which cause corrosion and dissolved minerals which can cause scaling that acts as an insulator raising the amount of energy needed to heat the water.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why not just have the city mandate the upgrades and then implement them? It’s probably not that big of a problem for everyone involved.

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      • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If it were that simple everyone would have done it by now. This method of heating your building is very expensive. Long story short, I’m in the HVAC business and two of my customers have made themselves independent. One was a private property management company that gutted an empty building and was successful, the other is a federal building that hired a private company to convert over and got screwed.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That isn’t steam, it’s smoke. Smoke from the smoked hams we’re having. Mmmm, smoked hams.

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Surely you mean smoked clams?

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    • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought that was from the streets of Albany?

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      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        no, there it was the other way round, pay attention

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Umbrella Underground Laboratory

    🤫 Shut up or they’ll send Nemesis after you

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  • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The dragon underneath is starting to stirr.

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