Our Buildings Were Built for a Different World | The climate crisis demands that we retrofit them—which won’t happen at scale until architects start seeing themselves as political actors.(www.thenation.com)

District heating/cooling is a big one. I think NY is still using 1st gen technology which is kind of crazy in this day and age (also crazy it’s one of the few places in the US using DH). We’ve moved so far in DH that I can’t imagine why they’re still using steam. The newest generation networks operate just above ambient, so the fact they’re still using steam blows my mind.

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GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml

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3 months ago

The U.S appears to be suffering from an aversion to public investment, to their great detriment.

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manmachine@lemmy.world

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3 months ago

Looks like a Technology Connections playlist tbh.

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3 months ago

I mean basically yeah

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