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re: when is the best time to get the lowest price on a snowblower?
31 dec 2000
wrote:
>polar wrote:
>>roads *are* in fact shaped to have a "crown" for runoff
>>purposes. perhaps not out & out "semi-circular", but
>>pitched enuff to enable runoff of melted snow water.
>except where will the runoff go? the snow from plowing the roads
>is stacked on the side, and i'd be surprised if much can get through
>to the sewers before the snow and ice covering the grates melts...
wb8foz@panix.com (david lesher) notes one solution...
>nyc is using a new rudy toy this blizzard:
> {from ap reports}
> normally, the department hauls accumulated flakes cleared
> from midtown streets to parks or vacant lots, but with the
> snow falling at an inch per hour, and new year's eve looming,
> the snow-melting machine was necessary to speed up the
> cleaning process, mr. fenty said. the machine, which can
> melt 60 tons of snow per hour, sends the resulting water
> into the sewers, he said.
>sixty tons of snow-> water per hour? that's a bunch of kilowatts,
>a whole bunch.....
hmmm. 60x2000x144 = 17 million btu/h or 5000 kw, between 100 and 200
gallons of oil per hour... but then we end up with all that water...
how about a snow to steam converter? :-)
nick
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