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Breaking Buildings’ Addiction to Fossil Fuels
How to Save a Planet
Introduction
Exploring the inefficiency of heating buildings in winter and the wastage of heat due to lack of control, with examples of poorly regulated heating systems in New York City apartments.
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Welcome to How to Save a Planet. I'm Alex Bloomberg. And I'm Dr. Ayana Lizbeth Johnson. And this is the podcast where we talk about what we need to do to address the climate
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crisis and how we're going to make those things happen.
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So Alex, it's winter. This is a season I'm glad that still exists. And until a few weeks ago, I lived in an apartment where I couldn't really control the heat. Like I had these radiators in the apartment and they would go on whenever the landlady decided to turn on the heat. And so I couldn't really regulate the temperature, right? Like, I could sort of turn the radiators on and off, but I was on the top floor and it was just really warm up there. And so I'd find myself sometimes opening the windows in the middle of winter, which is obviously extremely inefficient. But not uncommon, certainly in New York. I do not think I am the only person who has done this. You are definitely not the only person who
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has done this. And a lot of that heat that's just going to waste out those
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open windows is coming from fossil fuels. Oh, nearly all of it, right? These like giant furnaces in the basements of these buildings.
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Yeah, and it's actually a huge problem.
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We spend billions and billions of
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dollars heating up
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buildings in New York City, just for the heat to float out of open windows.
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