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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Beer pipeline are a thing. At the Hellfest festival all the bars are connected to a beer pipeline fed by tankers trucks of beer.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's a permanent beer pipeline in Bruges connecting a brewery with the bottling plant 3km away

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How about the CO2? German companies developed a system that catches all the CO2 and puts it back into the beer before bottling, because the CO2 from the beer tastes better than "regular" CO2

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Cafe latte addicts' dream setup

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As long as the shower had a milk faucet

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    I thought of having soda faucets like that as a kid.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Oh God, the smells

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Almost as great of an idea as a direct burial copper water line!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Make sure you let your milk line drip overnight if you're up north. Otherwise the pipes will freeze.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Nut milk comes from male cows.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    The Milk Superhighway is coming.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I love the comments here.

    OP: uses AI to illustrate five-second throwaway gag

    average poster: is that AI? burn him! burn the witch!

    armchair plumbers: you can't bury pipes that shallow, and why the heck would you do direct burial?

    armchair engineers: do you know how much heat you're wasting?!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm more curious how a hot water main works? Is there just millions of miles of heated pipes underground? And I thought a gas boiler was inefficient.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any time you want hot water, you need to wait for all of the water between your house and the heating facility to drain before you get hot water. It can help to coordinate with your neighbours.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wait. That's a different problem than hot water just from my basement. The basement is slow, but has nothing to do with neighbors. I think we live in different countries.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The mains are shared with your neighbours, so a hot water main would also be shared with neighbours. So just like running the hot water in the bathroom sink before a shower means hot water gets to the shower quicker, with hot water mains, your neighbour having a hot shower before you means you'll see hot water sooner.

    Though my country does not have hot water mains. I wouldn't be surprised if the heat losses are enough that even sharing a water heater between unattached neighbours is less efficient than both using their own heaters, let alone a whole city doing that. Though maybe tropical areas could do it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    There's a few places that use the water runoff from a nuclear power plant to provide hot water or heating to surrounding homes. Apparently they only have a lose about 3% of the heat and can supply a 100km area.

    Obviously the pipes probably don't look like that

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Perfect. At least some of the people are not asleep at the wheel and can still keep the place they like garbage-free.

    I like that people can and do express that LLM slop is not welcome here.

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