Baird: 10,000 NYC apartment buildings burn delivered oil for heat and hot water
Donnel Baird · HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird · Jul 7, 2022 · at 10:05
Donnel Baird, founder of BlocPower, highlights the continued prevalence of oil-fueled heating systems in New York City apartment buildings.
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“In New York City, there's 10,000 giant apartment buildings that burn oil for hot water and for heat. Like, a truck filled with oil pulls up once a week and runs this, like, tube into the basement, into the heating system, and, like, pumps oil from the back of the truck into the basement, and then you burn that oil to produce hot water year round, and that is how apartment buildings in twenty-twenty-two 10,000 of them, at least, use fossil fuels, and that's on site, right?”
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