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The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with a raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.
So, I made a hydrogen generator and I made an oxygen generator, and I had the two pipes leading into a beaker and I threw a match in.
For example, pumps, the biggest use of motors, move liquid through pipes.
But a standard industrial pumping loop was redesigned to use at least 86 percent less energy, not by getting better pumps, but just by replacing long, thin, crooked pipes with fat, short, straight pipes.
So, as it's produced and processed and transported to homes and businesses across America, it escapes from wells and pipes and other equipment.
Leading companies replaced valves and tightened loose-fitting pipes.
We're trying to process so much stuff that some people get synesthetic and just have huge pipes that remember everything.
Instead of blowing a hurricane of chilled air through the stadium, we can use radiant cooling technologies, like a floor heating system where water pipes are embedded in the floor.
And just by using cold water going through the water pipes, you can release the heat which is absorbed during the day in the stadium, so you can create that comfort, and then by adding dry air instead of down-chilled air, the spectators and the football players can adjust to their individual comfort needs, to their individual energy balance.
This is the city of San Francisco, which has 900 miles of sewer pipes under the city already, and it releases its waste water offshore.
And then some cheery soul usually always pipes up and says, "Hey, don't forget about plagues!" (Laughter) There are some optimistic answers to this question, so some people will bring up the Age of Exploration and the opening up of the world.
San Francisco is also spending 40 million dollars to rethink and redesign its water and sewage treatment, as water outfall pipes like this one can be flooded with seawater, causing backups at the plant, harming the bacteria that are needed to treat the waste.
So these outfall pipes have been retrofitted to shut seawater off from entering the system.
So think about water flowing in pipes, where the pipes have different thickness.
In water pipes, we have fixed-capacity water pipes that have fixed flow rates, except for expensive pumps and valves.
Imagine if water pipes could expand or contract to change capacity or change flow rate, or maybe even undulate like peristaltics to move the water themselves.
But by 1929, cities around the country had put in underground water pipes.
They had put in underground sewer pipes, and as a result, one of the great scourges of the late 19th century, waterborne diseases like cholera, began to disappear.
And they said scaling, which is the build-up of minerals inside of pipes.
And then the aperture closes, and we have to flush the pipes with toxins, or we have to dig them up.
What's inside your pipes?
So the same sort of a process, without the proteins, is happening on the inside of their pipes.
That is why they started providing aluminum pipes, aluminum barracks.
It's a collection of floors, one on top of each other, with a core in the center with elevators, stairs, pipes, wires, everything, and then a glass skin on the outside that, due to direct sun radiation, creates a huge greenhouse effect inside.
Leaking pipes cause the same reaction in concrete buildings, and within 200 winters, most skyscrapers buckle and tumble down.
The pipes are infinite and you're going to bump your head, and it's a part of the process.
It is the everyday soundscape that arises from the audience themselves: their coughs, their sighs, their rustles, their whispers, their sneezes, the room, the wood of the floors and the walls expanding and contracting, creaking and groaning with the heat and the cold, the pipes clanking and contributing.
Here is one from a story about Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy: [A dock that had been broken in the middle and lost its other half sloped down toward the water, its support pipes and wires leaning forward like when you open a box of linguine and it slides out.]
It allowed water pipes to be placed.
It allowed sewage pipes to be placed, dramatic decrease in diarrheal diseases, at the cost of some outdoor air pollution.
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