Re:New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
by CodeWriter23 on Saturday December 25, 2021 @06:51PM
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Imagine dividing your solar capacity among several hundred dwelling units in an NYC apartment complex and then you might be close to an apples-to-apples comparison to what this regulation means.
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Re:New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
by photochemsyn on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:04PM
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Well, in that case you'd also want to add in things like offshore wind capacity and large remote solar array capacity and remote energy storage capacity. A NYC apartment complex can no more be expected to be energy-independent any more than it can be food-independent.
Cities will always require the import of significant materials, food, and energy from surrounding areas, and electricity is actually a more efficient means of importing energy than natural gas is. Replacing all the diesel trucks and buses with electrical versions, that's equally desirable. Cities will become much cleaner places, which is to everyone's benefit.
Re:New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
by rsstack on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:04PM
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Solar in NYC is complicated. In my condo building, there are 500 apartments and the roof area is about 10k sqft, and it's shadowed by our neighboring building about a third of the day.
However, there are some fascinating cases that work: https://www.stuytown.com/sustainability/solar This project is almost complete and seems to be working really well.
Re:New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
by sxates on Saturday December 25, 2021 @07:01PM
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The benefits of electrification are not limited to those with local solar production. But obviously if you are generating your own power, running everything on that same fuel type has big benefits.