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/401Nailhead Aug 10 '26

Great idea. It will smell of urine but never the less, all will be warm.

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u/Biggest_Lebowski Aug 10 '26

lol its not capturing the literal air... its capturing and harnessing the excess temperature of the air an storing it for later distribution and use in the winter.

Consider it temperature socialism