@ Work: All suited up for the cold

Another cold front has hit Korea over the last few days, where temperatures plummeted into the sub-zero zone. If you have already been following this blog, you will know that there will be no end to the bitching until probably summer!

Anyway, I'm glad that someone else is more prepared on our site than me.

This is a 'Transmitter'.

Since there is water in it/flows through it, there is possibility of freezing... Long story short ~ It'll stop working, and a power plant could possibly shut down because of this one failure.

"So how?"... you may ask.

"Wrap special heat-tracing cables around it, run electricity through it, and this will heat up and keep it from freezing. Slap on insulation that'll keep the warmth in afterwards lah! That'll stop it from freezing over"... I will answer.

"Oh, so there's like a heater thingy underneath all that goo! But why so ugly wan?? Looks like a cob job where someone just slap some cow shit on there!"... you may ask again.

"Hey ~ this is the first time I'm seeing funky insulation like this too you know! Usually it's nicely wrapped, or they make nice boxes around it and stuff it with fuzzy insulating wool."... I explain.

"How does it look before having all that crap slapped on?"... you wonder.

"Click HERE."... I point.

By the way, this stuff stays on for the rest of its useful life.