[BeauBo]

“I wonder how many buildings a 27.5 inch heating pipe supports?”

I don’t know for the pipe, but heating plants can supply tens of thousands of homes - one per neighborhood or district. (also, I misstated earlier that it was steam heat - they use hot water).

[SpeedyInTexas]

https://freerepublic.com/~wildcardredneck/

This account has been banned or suspended.

So sad. So very sad.

[FtrPilot]

Hot geysers in the streets of Russian Lipetsk instead of heating in residential buildings. An accident occured in the heating system there.

Local authorities report that almost 70 buildings are without heating.

The temperature in Lipetsk, Russia is -22c today.

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1746089290403098667

70 apartment buildings?