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The Tube is horrible to use in warm weather because it has no air conditioning. The warm air created within the carriages and subterranean stations simply moves around the tunnels or lies trapped in the sweltering stations.
This creates the perfect opportunity for a chain of launderettes to be built
into the network that take advantage of all of that surplus hot air, by venting it into their drying machines. "This suit was dried by commuters on the Bakerloo line at The Elephant and Castle"
London Underground "Fluffers"
https://en.wikipedi...London_Underground)
A vital engineering service [8th of 7, May 13 2017]
Excess heat used for homes
https://www.globalc...ent&linkId=72987625
[xenzag, Sep 04 2019]
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// venting it into their drying machines // |
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You really don't know what's in that air, do you ? |
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Have a look at "Fluffers" <link> |
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Skin flakes, hair, brake dust, metal particles, asbestos fibres, silica, dried saliva, soot, ozone, bacteria, viruses, street dirt ... |
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You'd need air-to-air heat exchangers - big ones - and frequently-cleaned filters. |
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Filters! Or the option to wear your Tube detritus with pride. |
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Where, in an isolation ward ? |
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Somebody should do the microbiome of Underground fluff. I have no idea why, but they should. |
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Let the fresh smell of clean clothes brighten your
commute. |
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Would everyone have to take off their clothes while
on the tube, washing and drying their clothes en
route, like a sort of train-based version of the Nick
Kamen Levi's ad? |
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<contemplates mental image of tube carriage full of unclad Londoners> |
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<screaming and uncontrollable retching> |
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The oft-reported dream meme of being partially or fully unclothed on public transport is bad enough in the dreamer's own head ... the reality doesn't bear even thinking about. |
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One carriage in each train set should be reserved for nudies, who also get to travel free. |
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They'd have to - where would they put their Oyster cards ? |
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// Currently TfL staff cannot read android phones // |
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Currently, most TfL staff cannot read; indeed, even pictograms defeat them. Some of the very senior ones have knowledge of fire and the use of edged tools, but that's about the limit. |
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Do you know what happens to that air *after* it's been passed over and through damp clothes? It goes from being hot, dry(ish) air to being warm, humid air. And that's terrible, hence the fishbone from me. |
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Yes, perhaps to make best use of this hot, moist air
the carriage next to the launderette carriage should
be a tropical greenhouse carriage, with rainforest
plants, tropical fruit that the hungry passenger can
pick from trees, etc. |
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//to being warm, humid air. And that's terrible// (sic) Humbug! No it doesn't, and besides even if it did, warm humid air is lovely. Ask any orangutan and they'll confirm it. |
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...but I like warm, humid air... |
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Orangutan! Just like me. The secret's out. |
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See last link. A spokesperson for London Transport
said they got the idea from a mad internet site
where it had been proposed as a means of drying
clothes. I’ll be expecting thermal royalties at
regular intervals. |
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Stimulating an idea feeds my self esteem but when I have not put any work in the sibling idea, recompense is not fitting. |
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Gratitudes are not unwelcome, though. |
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In this case, I am the originator and London
Transport the 'sibling' user of my idea, as
confirmed by their acknowledgement and I
presume soon to be sent incremental rewards on a
per therm basis. |
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I don't think so. All you told them was that there is excess hot air. A stimulus for an idea, does not a prototype make. |
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No. I showed a use for that excess hot air, to
provide the heat necessary to dry clothes. Central
to the idea is the redirection and use of the hot
air, and that was my idea, which I'm happy for
them to use, but the fact remains; it was and is my
idea. I own it, and I expect thermal benefits. |
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Can you patent the generalised idea of redirecting hot air? A specific use or specific way of doing it ,yes, but the overview nebulous concept? But if I am wrong, you deserve all the hot air owed to you. |
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Do you know what the term 'having an original
idea' means? If so then let's hear your definition. As
far as I can tell, no one published the idea of
harvesting the excess hot air produced by the
London Tube system and putting it to useful
purpose before I did, albeit in a halfbaked manner,
as befitting the purpose of this site as a depository
of the daft and semi daft. |
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So, you're saying that the hot air came first, and this was just
a dafterthought? |
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Incidentally, it should be possible to air-condition the
underground through the cunning use of chimneys. If every
other station along a line were enclosed in a vast 200m-tall
chimney (with revolving doors or airlocks for passenger
access), then the warm air would create huge currents
moving from chimney-less to bechimneyed stations. |
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With a little extra engineering, the air currents could assist
the passage of the trains. |
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I can have a generalised idea that the energy from falling fruit can be utilized in some way. I can't then patent that thought and make anyone whom has a great specific idea, using this untapped resource, owe me an overhead. They can, off their own feel will, show me gratitude for stimulating their great specific idea. I am free, of course, to patent a great specific idea using this resource and put the time and effort into making it realised. |
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If you think this is an idea, then post it here and
see if some power generating company picks it and
uses it, in the same way as the London Tube did
with my idea. Good luck getting your patent but
when you believe in yourself, nothing should stand
in your way. How about dressing up as a banana
and
flinging yourself off a tall structure as your
contribution to providing the power to illuminate
some previously dark corner for a few nano
seconds? You can call yourself Bananampere The
Great. |
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// [//nudies, who also get to travel free//]'d have to [travel free] - where
would they put their Oyster cards ? // |
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Well, the name suggests a place, though a non-card form factor may be more
comfortable. |
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// Do you know what the term 'having an original idea' means? // |
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Do you? Also, do you know that, while copyright is automatic upon fixation,
patent is not? |
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Do you have a citation for this:? |
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// A spokesperson for London Transport said they got the idea from a mad
internet site where it had been proposed as a means of drying clothes. //, |
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because I didn't see anything about that in the linked article. |
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That article appeared in April's edition of "Mind-
The-Gap" magazine. It's only available by
subscription but the British Library keeps back
copies, if you'd like to pop in and make a request. I
can also recommend The Laundry Lounge. It's a
private club for all lovers of industrial washing
apparatus. (by invitation only, but if you compose
an application here outlining why you think you
would be a suitable candidate for membership, I
can pass it on) |
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