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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
We're hot. Really hot.
It might be raining on Earth, sprinkling raindrops on the Mill Race and making Franklin Boulevard a slippery, slick sheen, but down here, we're sweating.
That's because it's at least 90 degrees underneath the University of Oregon campus, in a place known as the "steam tunnels," where temperatures hover around 100 degrees.
This is the UO's power grid, where steam pipes both large and small mix with electrical and high-voltage lines and other pipes that carry compressed air and natural gas.
"There's probably 100 different points to get in (to the tunnels)," says Paul Bruch, a project specialist for the UO's Facilities Service Office near the Mill Race. "But any kind of myth you've heard about...
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