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On 7/7/2010 1:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
>> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
>> easily get up.
>> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>>
>
> The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting. ;-)
>
So, that's how geysers work .... <stares in astonished wonderment>
--
~Mike
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On 7/7/2010 12:38 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
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> Nice idea. One small problem: How the HELL does the water make it up an
> extra floor to reach the tank??? :-P
>
Many, many years ago, some yahoo decided to connect a motor to an
impeller in place it in a stream of water. His discovery? He found that
he could move water against the force of gravity. He was so proud of his
invention he brought it to a a quaint lake out on Califorina called Life
lake. He was so impressed with himself and so proud, he hooked up his
invention, dropped the inlet into the lake and drained all of the water
out just to show what he could do.
That is how Death Valley was formed. That's also how the water gets to
the tank on the roof.
The tank acts as sort of a capacitor, you know... :D
--
~Mike
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Invisible wrote:
> How do you do this in Haskell / Eiffel / any other languages that
> perversely chose "--" as the comment marker?
It seems there are whole bunches of old XKCDs that I have zero memory of
having read.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:14:37 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
>> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
>> easily get up.
>
> LOL
It's all a conspiracy, I tell ya... ;-)
>> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>>
>>
> The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting.
> ;-)
Well, that would explain it. ;-)
Jim
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On 07/07/2010 9:38 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
> On 7/7/2010 1:14 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
>>> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
>>> easily get up.
>
>>> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>>>
>>
>> The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting.
>> ;-)
>>
>
> So, that's how geysers work .... <stares in astonished wonderment>
>
There are more things in Heaven and Pov, Mike, Than are dreamt of in
your philosophy. ;-)
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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On 07/07/2010 10:50 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:14:37 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> On 07/07/2010 6:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> The water that goes to the upper floor is full of flouride and other
>>> chemicals that give it an excess of anti-gravitrons, allowing it to
>>> easily get up.
>>
>> LOL
>
> It's all a conspiracy, I tell ya... ;-)
>
Mercy buckets, its true. :-)
>>> The bigger question is why doesn't the tank fly off into space?;-)
>>>
>>>
>> The ball cock holds it down. All those chemicals stop it from lifting.
>> ;-)
>
> Well, that would explain it. ;-)
>
Some chemicals inhibit rising, whilst others actively promote it. O_o
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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> Every car I've ever seen has hinges which try to force the door fully open
> or fully closed. Now you can see why fully closed would be a good idea.
> But if you're parked in a tight space, it's really irritating that you
> can't let go of the door because you'll either get a door in your face, or
> the door will spring open and scratch up the car next to you.
>
> Such a simple problem, yet nobody has solved it. WHY?!! >_<
Huh? Every car I've had for decades has a soft "stop" half way where the
door is quite stable. You can then push it a bit harder and it locks all
the way out. Try it!
> Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs ones
> connected to a tank?
To stop you having mains pressure cold (~1-5 bar) next to tank pressure hot
(~0.2 bar) in the bath. Imagine what happens when you connect one of those
old-fashioned shower adapters to the bath taps, turn hot and cold to full
and then turn *off* the shower head. Fortunately now we have taps with
back-flow prevention valves and fancy mixer taps to avoid this problem.
Many houses don't have a cold tank, and some won't have a hot tank either
(the hot is heated on-demand by the boiler).
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>> Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs
>> ones connected to a tank? Why do we even *have* a tank??
>>
>
> Because the mains does not have enough pressure to push the water upstairs
> at a tolerable force. If it weren't for the tank, you'd turn on the faucet
> and get barely a trickle... With the tank on the roof, you get nice water
> pressure.
It's different in the UK, the mains pressure usually equates to about 10-50
metres plus of head. Any water from a tank in the roof is usually *way*
lower pressure than mains. For example you can easily block off a fully
open hot tap with your thumb with very little force, but it is tricky, if
not impossible to do the same on a mains pressure cold tap.
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> Huh? Every car I've had for decades has a soft "stop" half way where the
> door is quite stable. You can then push it a bit harder and it locks
> all the way out. Try it!
Doesn't seem to work with my Renault Megan III.
does work there.
>> Why are the downstairs taps connected to the mains, but the upstairs
>> ones connected to a tank?
>
> To stop you having mains pressure cold (~1-5 bar) next to tank pressure
> hot (~0.2 bar) in the bath. Imagine what happens when you connect one
> of those old-fashioned shower adapters to the bath taps, turn hot and
> cold to full and then turn *off* the shower head. Fortunately now we
> have taps with back-flow prevention valves and fancy mixer taps to avoid
> this problem. Many houses don't have a cold tank, and some won't have a
> hot tank either (the hot is heated on-demand by the boiler).
My house doesn't have and has never had a hot water tank. As you say,
water is heated on-demand. Which, come to think of it, means that only
the cold tap is fed from a tank. Given that there's no noticable
difference in water pressure between the two, that makes the need for a
tank even more dubious.
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> Doesn't seem to work with my Renault Megan III.
That would be the first car I've ever seen (and I've seen lots way older and
smaller than yours!) that didn't have such a feature. You really mean that
once you un-latch the door it is free to swing out to 100% open? Yes, I can
imagine that would be really annoying in car parks and garages.
> My house doesn't have and has never had a hot water tank. As you say,
> water is heated on-demand.
Was it like that when the house was built?
> Which, come to think of it, means that only the cold tap is fed from a
> tank. Given that there's no noticable difference in water pressure between
> the two, that makes the need for a tank even more dubious.
Yes, it seems odd to build a house like, as you don't need a hot or cold
tank with an on-demand boiler.
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