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Freshly brewed tea and coffee are circulated at 98C and very high pressure through a network of heavily insulated small bore pipes running to and from every home in a neighbourhood. The system distributes heat energy (via heat exchangers), mechanical (hydraulic) energy by virtue of the high delivery
pressures, and fresh piping-hot beverages at the turn of a valve.
Energy and beverage consumption are metered.
The grade of tea or coffee will probably vary with the relative affluence of the neighbourhood; some localites will receive Earl Grey tea though their pipes, others just basic Indian blended.
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What about near-boiling water instead of coffee or tea, so
the user can brew any drink they want, or use it for cooking?
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They'd have to take a community-wide vote to decide which
drink to use... and make sure it's well-filtered to ensure there
are are no coffee grounds or tea leaves in the pipes to create
buildup and cause blockages. Other than that... I think the idea
has merit. The coffee or tea could be brewed in bulk, which
would save money for packaging and transportation, as well as
saving folks frequent trips to the supermarket. This would also
possibly get the community working together on the project to
ensure it tastes good. [+] |
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Sounds digusting, BTW. There would always be some arse who adds milk to it in the pot/pipe, like the slop we were served at boarding school. |
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// adds milk ... like .... we were served at boarding school // |
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That ..... wasn't....... milk..... |
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You're right... it was powdered milk, as were the eggs, mashed potatoes and anything else they could buy from army surplus. |
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Rather than having to decide as a community which hot drink you want, why not just let everyone have access to dozens of different beverage taps?
The idea states that your consumption is monitored, so you won't pay for drinks you don't like drinking. |
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Yes, why not. Cocoa, green tea, even hot lemon with paracetamol. for flu sufferers. |
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The selection could change seasonally .... Gluhwein at Christmas. |
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Reconstituted blood for those with vampiric delusions. |
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I don't know why, but I think that the added length this would give to your kitchen counter would be an overwhelmingly positive bonus. |
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Visions of a Brasilesque nest of pipes, converters, pressure regulators and other assorted tubery all gurgling quietly away behind the wainscoting. All is well until one of the pipes springs a leak, at which point, you'd better make sure you've filled out a 27B/6 before the PG-Man comes round. |
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I really love this. I had no idea you could come up
with such a generous and functionally sound
group/community hug sort of idea. |
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Okay, fess up fellow bakers, which one of ya's cloning
experiment is he? |
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Aren't the Borg the ones who do the cloning? |
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I suspect you'll run into problems with cavitation in your pipes: Happens when the pumped fluid vaporizes and subsequently implodes in the pipe leading to massive damage. Happens under high temp. or low pressure situations. This is the main reason why a trans-atlantic pipeline has never been created: You need a pump installed every couple miles or so to keep your pressures in check, would be drastically inefficient. To keep your pressure high enough will require lots of pump energy, long story short; definitely for the high end community. Also, I've already witnessed water faucets on individual homes that output water at near boiling temps. I'm guessing they are single unit operations as opposed to some sort of community wide distributed network, for good reason. neutral. |
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NOW it all falls into place. |
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Yup. Rum, sodomy, and the lash .... |
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// the ones who do the cloning // |
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No. We Assimilate other life-forms. Lots of other species do clone themselves and others, though. |
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We actually caught a rather nasty sodomist at it, at about 9pm one Sunday night. He was "punishing" a younger boy. |
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The man was in a rather tattered state when we delivered him to the headmaster at 10pm that evening. |
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8 or 9 of the older boys, sixth-formers, had used him as a punching bag for a bit. I don't know what happened to him after the head delivered him to the police station in town, as we never saw him at the school again. |
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