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Re:The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video] by avhon1 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:05PM (#18444388)
> I've sometimes wondered if it would be practical to operate a steam heating system at a partial vacuum so that the condensation/vaporization could occur at a lower temperature

He actually talks about exactly this in the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQB0KK2rxcw&t=573

"You'll be sending steam up into the building at temperatures, in some cases, as low as 150 degrees" (83 degrees C)

Re:The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video] by userbinator on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:46PM (#18444720)
Look up "vacuum vapor heating" for more info --- quite clever to do it even without using a vacuum pump, just special vent valves.