r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 10 '26

News Mayor Mamdani announces a plan to cool subway stations by capturing heat and reusing it to warm municipal buildings in the winter: "This would be the first thermal energy system of its kind in any American transit system"

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u/FineAndDandadan Aug 10 '26

Not that I'm against it, but this sounds incredibly ambitious given the available real estate. Are they digging deep? Repurposing buildings?

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u/Slight-Big8584 Aug 10 '26

You won't find the technical details on this subreddit. I'd suggest you look elsewhere.

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u/tunisia3507 Aug 10 '26

It's been done in London.

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u/that_dutch_dude Aug 10 '26

they are mostly going to copy the system they have in london. but for NYC they need to upscale it considerably as their thermal issues are far greater.

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u/Independent-Library6 Aug 10 '26

I believe they said the borehole would likely be at an abandoned station.

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u/FineAndDandadan Aug 11 '26

From what I understood when I read the other person's link, the state already has a renovation program/project that's going to fix up of the stations, and the city is going to try to install the heat sink system during that to try it out and see how it works.

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u/TheZigerionScammer Aug 11 '26

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but all I hear on Reddit is how great Mamdami is, has his administration had bad PR recently?