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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.

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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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        You made a big mistake there, you assume working people live in these things…

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

          More housing is more housing.

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            This is just BS as most apartments in skyscrapers are empty in general because not even rich people want to own that shit.

            How about that(above image) and good public transport?

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              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.

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                Lower density isn’t the problem with affordable housing and public transport.

                The skyscrapers are not good, they never are.

                Get public transport.

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                  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.

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

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      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.

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

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.