Now, poop burns mighty hot. The flue gasses that come out of this incinerator are around 2,000-degrees Fahrenheit. If they let that much heat fly up the chimney it would look like Cape Canaveral, and the neighbors would probably get concerned. So the engineers take those flue gasses and cycle them through this other steam boiler that is larger than Madison Square Garden. Here, they produce steam at 400 psig, which they then vent though a pipe in the roof. From a distance, this plant appears to be producing clouds as a subcontractor to God.
You may wonder, as my friend did, why the engineers don’t just take the 400-psig of wasted steam and use it to heat their buildings. After all, the supply of poop is never-ending, and the load (no pun intended) is more than sufficient. All it would take would be a pipe from here to the PRV station. There is really no reason to have the two 35-million BTUH boilers producing steam at 100-psig, which is immediately reduced to 15-psig, and then converted to 180-degree water, which flows to baseboard convectors. It appears to be the Department of Redundancy Department at work. I suspect that some engineer was frightened by the possibility that all the citizens may become constipated at the same time. Back-up (again, no pun intended) thus became essential.
I asked my friend why they were doing all of this and he shrugged. “Beats me,” he said. “I’m just the contractor.”
Somewhere in America, people are pooping, and not realizing that there is a lot more waste in this country than that which flows downhill.
Dan Holohan
Dan Holohan
"Plumbers Protect The Health Of The World."
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