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a giant greenhouse

• culi 2y ago
  concrete and glass. It's truly an awful way to build in so many parts of the world but as building regulation gets exported so does this style of building. Displacing more localized and efficiently cooled/warmed building styles
  • fsckboy 2y ago
    If you are going to have a big box, there is no way to avoid all the solar energy, but when you are cooling on the scale of a skyscraper, your cooling towers are cooling more efficiently than a house air conditioner. heat pump in suite pumps heat into flowing water pipe, water pipe goes up to the roof, heat transferred through heat exchanger to different water, cooling towers spray a fountain of that water into the air, blow fans across it for evaporative cooling; then that cooler water is collected, sent to transfer more heat back in the same heat exchanger, and the now cooler water is sent down to the suite to come around again. Same system us used in the winter for heating, not with the cooling tower, but with very high temp steam from power plants sent underground to all the buildings NYC has a smaller carbon footprint per capita than most other places with economic activity.
    • benbojangles 2y ago
      i wonder what corbusier would say
    • aidenn0 2y ago
      > NYC has a smaller carbon footprint per capita than most other places with economic activity. Truly a city known for it's balmy southern climate.