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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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          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 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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                  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.