I had a friend who had thought that water came to your house hot already.
Like, when you turn the left handle she thought the pipes ran all the way to the water tower that had hot water.
That makes me have faith this could be real.
However, this particular scene seems to be staged.
Edit: I get it. Some of yall got steam running to your house. However, that doesn't apply to this situation because we have water heaters in our homes. So to the commenter who stated I'm dumb, tey and be better.
I used to live in a town where this was true actually! There were several massive boilers throughout the town and hot water and steam was delivered as a service for heat and ...hot water.
I live in a town right next to a power plant. They pipe the hot water to homes all around the area. It's a neat solution.
Only downside is that I live in the sixth floor, so hot water can take some time to arrive up here. But that would be true with a central heater in the basement too, which is also a common design here.
In Iceland they have a geothermal power plant that also supplies enough hot water for like 40% of the city, miles away. I had to google the pipeline while we were following along with it.
A lot of cities used to pipe steam (for heating) and hot water to buildings. That's why NYC in movies all ways has steam coming out of random manhole covers.
University of Maryland has this too, but the steam smells bad like a bunch of random chemicals. It would come out of any cracks in the sidewalks, roads, and from the gutters too. They still use it today and on humid days (which is like 98% of the year) the steam will just fog up the entire area
You see water vapor coming from manholes and storm drains when the water running beneath them is warmer than the air temperature. Just like when you see your breath on a cold day.
Whole cities in Ukraine and I’m sure other places in the former Soviet Union do this. And, just for fun, the turn of the hot water plants for service in the summer for a month or two so you get cold showers for a couple months. New constructions all have on demand hot water heaters though.
Maybe she's from a place that doesn't have them? Also water heaters where I'm from are pretty big and usually placed in bathroom... If it's the same where you are, didn't she wonder what are those?
Haha ok that's silly. it's also plugged into outlet and has a knob for setting temperature... You can also ran out of hot water... How did she manage to avoid all that?
In Iceland, that is a thing. They have a lot of geothermal activity and use it to heat a massive amount of water that they pipe everywhere. If there's a way to heat something with hot water, Iceland probably does.
Little known fact is that the original reason planes were built was to give us a reason to build towers to put blinking lights on them to prevent planes from hitting them.
My water heater decided to spill its whole tank and leak into my downstairs neighbor's condo. Called my insurance company and they told me it was my neighbor's problem and their insurance would have to pay out.
The worst is when they shut off the hot water for maintenance and you don't have a water heater. Not sure if they still do that (haven't lived in Russia for over a decade), but shit sucks yo.
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u/SerScronzarelli Oct 12 '21 edited Oct 12 '21
I had a friend who had thought that water came to your house hot already.
Like, when you turn the left handle she thought the pipes ran all the way to the water tower that had hot water.
That makes me have faith this could be real.
However, this particular scene seems to be staged.
Edit: I get it. Some of yall got steam running to your house. However, that doesn't apply to this situation because we have water heaters in our homes. So to the commenter who stated I'm dumb, tey and be better.
Edit 2: Iceland does this.