Eli5: How does a hotel always have hot water for every occupant?

Question

Eli5: How does a hotel always have hot water for every occupant?

In: 1975

Answer 1

I live in a condo. In Europe. There are 150 condos in this building, and nearby there are other similar buildings. Typical ugly blocks of flats build during the “Socialistic era”. We have central heating and it also provides hot water for each and every flat. Hot water never, ever runs out. There is central heating plant in town and it supplies hot water for all big buildings. There is a “thermal substation” in each neighborhood where the heat is supplied centrally from the power plant and they heat water for all buildings in a borough.

New York has similar system, I think, with distribution of steam all around city center.