New York’s First Electric Skyscraper Promises Luxury With Lower Emissions | An apartment tower in downtown Brooklyn has ditched fossil fuel heating and appliances

An apartment tower in downtown Brooklyn has ditched fossil fuel heating and appliances as new city rules on energy efficiency are phased in.

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Aight Miku fan here is just fucking trolling.

Overall this is great news for BK: we need more housing and we need it yesterday.
Does anyone live in an electric building? I'd be curious if they can deliver enough hot water to all the units in time
- 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.
  
  Big buildings like this usually use a central boiler. I'd be shocked if they weren't.
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- 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.
  
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