Piping on TV

On cable TV in Canada we have a few engineering-related television programs. Some of the recent ones I've seen:

• the chunnel
• offshore platforms
• tall buildings
• virtual reality for engineering
• big machines
• city underground (lots of piping)

What would be really neat would be a program all about piping. Could it fill a whole hour and still be interesting? I'm betting yes, if good graphics could be used.

Of interest to a targetted TV audience might be:

• what is piping design (quite a few hundreds of years of history here)
• refineries and other facilities (what does all that stuff do?)
• pigs and stoppling methods
• the role of piping in everyday life (plumbing)
• really complicated CAD models and animated walk-throughs (cool)
• review and understanding of the safety standards used (99.999% of facilities do not explode)
• examples of huge pipes/valves used in the past (wow factor)
• study of past failures (must be said)
• suggest more

Any more ideas? The cable television world is looking for material and this would seem to be a no-brainer.

Paul
Piping Design Central

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