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How green is all that construction? How expensive is it to build all those green buildings? It’s not a tricky question, I assure you, having just finished a six

• ben_w 4y ago
  > How green is all that construction? How expensive is it to build all those green buildings? Wildly indeterminate on both questions because at that scale it is primarily a function of government rules and interventions rather than personal actions — just consider how much money people actually had when half the city was built. But that also goes both ways, because a single building doesn't need to care about most of the infrastructure — sure, the site needs to have utility connections and a road, but you personally neither need to nor care to make the decisions about the capacity of the nearby sewage farm/high voltage power lines, or if there are enough schools/hospital beds/police stations, or if the Autobahn and Eisenbahn have enough capacity to supply the supermarkets. I know it can be done cheap because of how little money there was when most of it was first put together, and that other much poorer nations also do many of these things. But exactly how cheap? Exactly how green? I don't know if your investigation was professional or personal, but either way I suspect you have more to tell me than vice-versa.