A Huge City Polluter? Buildings. Here’s a Surprising Fix.
A Huge City Polluter? Buildings. Here’s a Surprising Fix.
Carbon capture might not work for all buildings. But some are giving it a try.
It starts with a building
in Manhattan.
It starts with
a building in
Manhattan.
It starts with
a building in
Manhattan.
It starts with a building
in Manhattan.
It starts with a building
in Manhattan.
On cold mornings in New York City, boilers in the basements of thousands of buildings kick on, burning natural gas or oil to provide heat for the people upstairs. Carbon dioxide from these boilers wafts up chimneys and into the air, one of the city’s biggest sources of global warming emissions.
But there is one exception.
At the Grand Tier, a 30-story apartment tower on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the carbon dioxide from its two giant gas boilers is…
