Keep the faucet open. As you treat the frozen pipe and the frozen area begins to melt, water will begin to flow through the frozen area. Running water through the pipe will help melt ice in the pipe.

A quantum annealer is slow and not very useful for computing, Vodeb says, but its thousands of qubits are ideal for such a simulation because they’re very controllable, allowing bubble formation ...

“These pipes flow for miles across the region, so you have to do all the isolation,” he said. “You have to throttle down the (water) main gradually and then drain. And so, we're still draining the ...