On Oct 6, 4:47 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote: > Actually, the Broadway Bridge, which crosses over > the Harlem Ship Canal and looks like it connects > Manhattan to da Bronecks, is actually still in > Manhattan on both ends. > > Go a'googlin for "Marble Hill". > > ahhh > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Hill,_Manhattan
Amazing! So I guess it would be wrong to say that Manhattan Island became a peninsula with a ship canal in it? PHILOSOPHICAL CONUNDRUM: Would the "Escape from the Bronx" (<http:// www.imdb.com/title/tt0089104/>) killing squads stop killing someone who reached Marble Hill? Hmmm. > > BTW, that British "cooking gas from human waste" story today was not > > that far beyond what's happening right now in New York City. > > According to an "Underground New York" series I saw, far below the > > streets are digesters producing methane, which is then burned to help > > run the sewage system! > > Kind of. The sewage treatment plants produce oodles and oodles > of methane. They burn it to help generate electricity > and make heat to... operate the plant. > > The short answer is that if you're already accumulating, > umm, shit, for some reason or another, then it's often > worth hooking it up to a generator or furnace. > > It isn't worth doing from scratch. I just wonder when we'll see a movie or TV show use this. (It would have been a natural for the "Beauty and the Beast" series, wouldn't it?) Maybe at some point there will be vast pipelines carrying the gas up north to reservoirs in Frack-land ;-) -Doug Elrod (d...@cornell.edu) P.S. I hope if someone is keeping track of "Vinita's Naughtiest Moments" for her highlight reel, they consider today's show. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to wn...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
