New York’s First Electric Skyscraper Promises Luxury With Lower Emissions
www.bloomberg.com
An apartment tower in downtown Brooklyn has ditched fossil fuel heating and appliances as new city rules on energy efficiency are phased in.
  • huginn@feddit.it
    7·
    2 months ago

    Aight Miku fan here is just fucking trolling.

    Overall this is great news for BK: we need more housing and we need it yesterday.

  • betz24@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    Does anyone live in an electric building? I’d be curious if they can deliver enough hot water to all the units in time

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      3·
      2 months ago

      Most electric heat pump hot water heaters have a slow-mode which uses the heat pump, and fills a large tank with hot water, and a fast-mode which uses a resistive heater when the tank runs out. I don’t see why this situation is particularly different for larger buildings, except that they need a larger tank and an electrical supply which can deliver the needed wattage.

      Cheapo landlord could of course install an undersized unit, as they can with any other key system.

      • huginn@feddit.it
        1·
        2 months ago

        Big buildings like this usually use a central boiler. I’d be shocked if they weren’t.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
          3·
          2 months ago

          It still amounts to “I’m heating up a big tank of water and supplying it to people on an as-needed basis.” The article makes it clear that they’re using several to supply the whole building:

          Electric water boilers | These provide hot water for the building and are typically more energy efficient than gas boilers, which are common in New York City.

          • huginn@feddit.it
            1·
            2 months ago

            Fair enough. I guess there could be a time when they need resistive to augment that but I’d think with sufficient boiler capacity you could do only heat pump.

            • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
              1·
              2 months ago

              You definitely can do only heat pump, but adding resistive backup is cheap if you’re already putting in new wiring anyways. So people do.

    • huginn@feddit.it
      71·
      2 months ago

      The equivalent suburb would be 10x the emissions because people drive.

      NYC needs millions more units of housing: this is how that happens in the densest parts of the city.

      Need to density other parts: sure. But it’s good to have buildings anywhere we can get them in NYC.

        • huginn@feddit.it
          61·
          2 months ago

          If you don’t build shitty apartments for the rich they’ll just gentrify poor areas.

          More housing is more housing.

            • huginn@feddit.it
              61·
              2 months ago

              This is downtown Brooklyn - NYC. Building the apartments in your image would lower density where this skyscraper is being built.

              Luxury buildings in downtown Brooklyn are not for the super rich - they’re for the 1%ers who work at banks downtown, and will almost certainly be rental units which are pretty constantly booked.

              You don’t get how housing constrained NYC is.

                • huginn@feddit.it
                  71·
                  2 months ago

                  We’re talking about Brooklyn NY

                  Do you know a single thing about Brooklyn NY?

                  Cause you don’t sound like you know a single thing about Brooklyn NY. Or about what it means to be housing constrained.