They connect through a well-ordered configuration of pipes, pumps, hoses and valves.
"It's just so nice to not have to practise this sport with exhaust pipes pumping out at us.
Nearby, behind a chainmail fence, a rusty network of pipes pumps cloudy residue into the Shiripuno river.
Open its doors, however, and there is a network of pipes, pumps and gizmos that Rube Goldberg might envy.
Part of the appeal of heating buildings with body heat is the delicious simplicity of finding a new way to use old technology (just pipes, pumps and water).
Beginning a Double Life An inventor and mechanical engineer, Friedrich Tinner got his start in Swiss companies that make vacuum technology, mazes of pipes, pumps and valves used in many industries.
A subterranean network of pipes, pumping stations, and waste-treatment plants would be the ideal solution, but Haiti's successive governments have had too little money, power, or will to build massive public works on their own.
Then you had to slither along a treacherous towpath, scramble over huge pipes pumping unimaginable quantities of dirty floodwater into the heavily swollen river Parrett, and slide down the bank to the lane outside Steve's home.
Finally Balfour Beatty added 5.1p to 227.8p after a joint venture with Skanska and MWH Global won a £1.5bn contract with Thames Water to replace pipes, pumping stations and treatment works.
Current planning calls for a system that could take advantage of the surviving infrastructure -- pipes, pumps and intakes -- as the most economical and efficient way of cooling all the new buildings.
