Julia Simon
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862 appearances
78 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 14 Sep
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And in cities, a lot of that energy use, it happens through heating and cooling buildings.
Right.
Colorado Public Radio's Ishan Thakur brought NPR this story for Climate Solutions Week.
It's about how one city is using old infrastructure to find new ways to heat and cool buildings.
They hope that by tackling one of the biggest ways that cities make climate pollution is
They can be a model for other cities across the country and save money.
Okay, that sounds like a win-win.
So tell us more.
Since the 1880s, downtown Denver, they've had this very special heating system.
It involves underground pipes that connect the buildings in a network of sorts.
Ishan actually went to an old boiler plant that used to be a key part of this system.
Today, it's this cavernous building filled with rattling pipes.
And Aisha, there's no other way to say it.
It's a pretty gross place.
It's got asbestos, piles of dead cockroaches.
That's Denver Mayor Mike Johnston.
This old boiler plant was designed to make steam.
That steam then snaked through that old network I mentioned earlier.
Now, heating buildings this way, it was very innovative in the 1800s.
But today, it's super leaky, it's expensive, and it's also polluting.
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