[87964] in Cypherpunks
Re: Internet Via Electric Lines?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thorsten Fenk)
Thu Oct 9 16:29:13 1997
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 21:07:30 +0200
From: Thorsten Fenk <t.fenk@ino.de>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199710081929.VAA19175@evrl.xs4all.nl>; from Cees de Groot on Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 09:29:22PM +0200
Reply-To: Thorsten Fenk <t.fenk@ino.de>
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Cees de Groot (cg@evrl.xs4all.nl) wrote :
> In the Netherlands, every house is hooked to the natural gas network. I've
> heard rumours about them guys testing literally blowing fiber into your
> house through the gas pipes (hook fiber to a shuttle, let it loose - gas
> pressure does the rest). Never heard how they're gonna do the steering on
> junctions, though...
That's not too difficult. There have small Robots for i.e. investigating
Tubes with a Camera, sealing Leaks,etc.
The smallest Tube Diameter they can reach with a Camera is
2,5 inch, given that there are no Curves.
regards
Thorsten
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