Why Is New York City Still Using Number 6 Oil in northern NYC and Harlem?
Thanks to Mayor Bloomberg, most of NYC now has natural gas.
How can the U.S.cities manage the urgent need to upgrade its urban infrastructure, when nobody seems to to be able champion these important improvement to the future. After watching one big city after another fail to provide the basics of a modern electricity system, the problem is clearly politics, not technology.
Frankly, it is inexcusable that parts of New York City still haven’t upgraded their heating systems into the natural gas. Would it surprise anyone that only northern NYC and Harlem are living in the fog and pollution of number 6 oil?
There are several other examples of the fact that upgrading of city infrastructure has slowed to a crawl, because nobody wants it in their backyard, the environmental community hasn’t supported it, and the cities have lost their ability to govern themselves.
It would be hard to get more wrong (and devoid of facts) than the following piece.
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“The warming atmosphere is supercharging any number of weather-related disasters — wildfires, hurricanes, crippling heat waves. But as it also fuels once-unthinkable amounts of rain in single bursts, the problem of so much water arriving so quickly is posing serious challenges in a nation where the built environment is not only outdated but increasingly outmatched.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/06/many-places-are-seeing-more-intense-rainfall-thats-big-problem/