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To: Ilaine who wrote (103099)	5/17/2001 10:05:24 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Sure -- there is an impressed demand for heating and cooking. Typically engineers will build in 5 - 10 years growth in capacity so that as load grows the pressure drop at the end of the pipe stays above certain minimums consider safe and useful for service during peak withdrawals. Now if you add to that demands for additional devices, i.e. fuel cells, that also peak during the same time and the increase is significant -- I'm sure a fuel cell in every yard in a subdivision would be a significant percentage increase -- the pipe is no longer sized for it. In the middle of the winter there will either be unacceptable pressure drops or the pipe will have to be replaced -- that is very expensive if done on a large scale. But distribution infrastructure is just part of it ...