It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
It's no longer a fantasy in the Belgian city of Bruges, where the world's first beer pipeline opened last week.
The two-mile pipe connects the Halve Maan brewery in the city's historic center with a bottling plant in the suburbs.
It's a practical solution to the logistical nightmare of having trucks thundering daily through the narrow cobbled streets of a medieval town, the brewery said.
The old town of Bruges is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Halve Maan is one of the fastest growing breweries in Belgium, and the traffic it was generating was becoming unsustainable.
The pipeline is 3,276 meters (2 miles) long, and runs 34 meters (111 feet) below the surface at its deepest point. It passes under the town's historic canals and ramparts. Roughly 4,000 liters of beer, enough to fill 12,000 bottles, flows through the pipeline in an hour.
Imagine what happens if the pipe breaks at some point in time (it will, eventually)...
I want it piped right to my fridge.
The pipeline is 3,276 meters (2 miles) long, and runs 34 meters (111 feet) below the surface at its deepest point.
Imagine what happens if the pipe breaks at some point in time (it will, eventually)...
originally posted by: rockintitz
a reply to: imsoconfused
I want it piped right to my fridge.
In a perfect world...
The pipeline is 3,276 meters (2 miles) long, and runs 34 meters (111 feet) below the surface at its deepest point.
Damn, so no chance of any crazy drunks popping it open and playing in it like a fire hydrant. That would be a sight lol.
The old town of Bruges is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Halve Maan is one of the fastest growing breweries in Belgium, and the traffic it was generating was becoming unsustainable.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: imsoconfused
but will it power aotomobiles in the event of a zombie apocalypse?