Heating Help

At a University Near You

Place: 100 year-old frat house at a major university
Heat source: university steam loop
Scene: spring break - house unoccupied for 10 days
Temperature ouside: 35 degrees
Temperature inside: 90 degrees
Controls: T-stat with inoperative motor valve - stuck open!
Most interesting feature: radiator at 200 degrees next to window airconditioner at 58.5 degrees.  Radiator winning.
Energy cost: $19,000/year for steam; $18,000 for electricity
Number of frat houses at this institution: 35
You do the math!

Let me guess

a public university, run by the government? 

Nope.

This is a private school. We were called in to talk a look at the energy use in some of their "smaller" buildings.

That Pressure Reducing Valve...

Is it a Spence or a Hoffman...or something else?
What are the pressures on the upstream and downstream sides?

And they wonder

why tuition is out of reach of many.........

How many posters of John Belushi as Bluto did you see there?

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Senator Bularsky!