allischalmers6
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Went out to my camp just a few miles south of the PA/NY border and went riding my quad down the 2 pipelines that parallel the camp. The new pipeline that was built in 2005 flows methanol through it and had a regular February snow cover on it. The other pipeline built in the 1960"s when we rode down it, had all the snow melted that was directly over the pipe. This melted snow was about 2 feet wide and went along as far as we rode. This pipeline I don"t know what runs through it. Any idea why the snow would be melted, and how an un-insulated pipeline could retain that much heat to melt snow for many miles beyond what we rode? For the curious the pipelines in my area converge into a massive pump station operated by Dominion in a little settlement called Ellisburg, PA.