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Pixiecat | 16:51 Fri 01st Apr 2005 | How it Works
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Why does steam come out of the pavments in New York, does anyone know?
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It's the lava flow, which apparently flows, just 128 cm at it's closest point to the pavement. That's why the foundations of the houses in N.Y. can't be any more than 1 Metre deep.
22:07 Fri 01st Apr 2005
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Which is why all of New York's subway trains are coated in the same heat resistant ceramic tiles that Rockwell use on NASA's space shuttles.  And all the big sky-scrapers keep falling over.

Its not steam.  Its hot air from the sewers condensing in the cold air above ground, similar to seeing your own breath on a cold day.

23:46 Fri 01st Apr 2005
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lol
00:32 Sat 02nd Apr 2005
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It is steam - many of the buildings in NY are on a grid of high pressure steam pipes, used to power the heating systems.

There are over-pressure vents in the sewers, and the lines do occasionally leak

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10:16 Sat 02nd Apr 2005

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