[blam]

"How antique and inefficient is it to try to heat a city by piping hot water around, anyhow?"

Yup. We had those in my 1-3 grades in grade school. (a long time ago)

[Dog Gone]

But did it come from central boiler a mile or two away? It seems to me that you'd lose a lot of heat long before you got to some of the buildings to be heated.

And in a place like Russia where it gets this cold, it seems almost futile.