The Empire State Building Is Now Wind-Powered

The Empire State Building and its sister buildings are now completely powered by wind energy. That’s more than 10M square feet of buildings going renewable 💨
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[@glorysky1998]

"One small step for man, one big leap for mankind" is how it goes I think

[@burper-oe6tm]

*giant

[@aaronvallejo8220]

Excellent leadership! High insulation, high efficiency, electric thermal mass heated floors, on site renewables, solar air heaters and off site renewables are definitely the future. This is what I did with my 100 year old house. I even disconnected the natural gas line from my property because I am now powered by renewably powered electricity.

[@AdrianMMable]

Setting an example. Good news. It’s a shame that a company belonging to a former president will actively choose to ignore this, and call this fake news.

[@jakesteel90]

I would prefer if they looked into Anthony cuomo cover up or hunter bidens labtop would also be a nice start

[@sirhandsome1349]

Meh. I was hoping they had setup windmills on the building

[@markrayes2973]

well... if the amount of maintenance they need... and the amount of birds they kill (seriously it's insane) probably wouldn't be the best idea

[@jonver92]

That’s what I thought too. They are still connected to the same grid as everyone else

[@haifutter4166]

@@markrayes2973 If you were retrofitting wind turbines to a building, you would more likely using vertical ones and when im not mistaken, those don't kill that many birds. And the amount of birds killed by big (to them invisible) glass buildings is the real problem in cities, that should be solved.

[@lourencovieira313]

@@haifutter4166 I live in a rural area and during the time when the bird eggs hatch, the babies usually tend to fly into my windows.

[@willm5814]

Good for them - brilliant!

[@dimitrygornomelikov3146]

As long as they don’t put LED or fluorescent lighting in Empire State I’m fine. I want only warm yellow incandescent light bulbs in Empire State Building to keep its 1920 Art Deco elegant charm.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

You can probably get LED lights in the desired color.

[@dimitrygornomelikov3146]

@@takatamiyagawa5688 No way you can get it the same color and same mood affect set

[@erichop822]

This is beyond silly. They just *buy* 'green' energy. They did not create it. That energy already existed in the net. All they did was buy the right to say they are green. There was no shift in the amount of CO2 emitted. They did not reduce CO2 emissions of the net as a whole. The only shift was in the bragging rights. It would have been completely different had they put up some new solar/wind energy plants themselves solely for the purpose of reducing their CO2 emissions.

[@brtecson]

People, look into green alternative energy. Out here in the midwest, arcadian energy will take over your consumer power account and provide your utility co with 50%wind for the same price and 100% wind for an extra $5/month, with situational discounts that can make it slightly cheaper than utility rates.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

Isn't that just greenwashing to trick people into paying more for electricity? Unless your money paid for enough wind turbines to account for every megawatt you use, you can't say your house is powered by wind.

[@MindWaveShort]

It's a great way to start and a great example for others

[@Jay-qw1gq]

That’s what we like to hear!!!

[@ronniejohnson317]

Let me get this straight. They are using windmills to make electricity so that we don’t need oil. Where are we going to get the oil for the windmills. They take at least 60 gallons each and leak terribly.

[@jeffwei]

That’s great, but the title is misleading, since they’re just purchasing it and not generating it onsite

[@sirhandsome1349]

Si. I agree

[@jonver92]

It’s more symbolic. They are still connected to the same grid as everyone else. I have a similar plan here in LA.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

If the built the turbines to generate it offsite, that would also be authentic, but I see no reason to suggest that's what they did. As far as I can tell, they're just drawing from the same grid as everyone else.

[@samuelazevedo9112]

I'm encouraged and proud of leadership, which supports the transition to renewable energy, and said leadership is uniquely valuable when it comes from the private sector. Of course, I fully endorse governmental action, due to its necessary role in the massive problem of climate change, but these forces are not causally isolated. In fact, their both complementary and necessary. As government supports renewable energy, this leads to greater development in the private sector. This is, of course, evidenced by changes in regulatory and lending policy, which has partially lead to driving down the costs of wind power, according to the World Economic Forum and the IEA's most recent report. To my actual point, business and the private sector also play a role in this because they evidence the power, success, and economic value of such technology, which leads to increased passive and active lobbying on the behalf of these sources. For example, Blackrock's decision to suspend investment in the oil industry and the media's reporting on this significant policy signals to other investors, the people, and ultimately also to government that the business sector favors governmental action to support these industries, leading to more aggressive and desperately necessary moves in the right the right direction. We need all the help we can get.

[@GregWatermann]

Beautiful.

[@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively]

Now how do we have socially conscious investors who help citizens before their bottom line?

[@Throughthelurkinglass]

They didn't even set up any wind power, they just checked the box online from the electric company if you want wind energy or not.

[@peterlarsen7779]

Way to go!!! 👍👏👍👏👍👏 On a differant note, it would be beneficial to upgrade building vides for homes by using an increased amount of insulation in walls, ceilings and under roofs as well as using vapour barriers with the insulation.

[@cane63106]

"the best tenants" interesting words there

[@601salsa]

Every building ought to produce it's own energy. Skyscrapers should use wind energy

[@speicaldark]

It's about time! How long can our planet really hold up with our current way of consuming energy?

[@johnathin0061892]

The earth was here before mankind, it will be here after mankind

[@user-te7wr8uz6c]

Where is the windfarm set up?

[@noaht3087]

Is it just me or did Trump tower just get shorter?!

[@ChrisBigBad]

aw, i thought they'd put a windmill on the top. been there once. it was horribly windy! also: no. let's cut airtravel AND power usage. It's not like you can turn off the lights, which allows you fly 20000 miles per year.

[@Herbhead369]

Love this

[@user-te7wr8uz6c]

I've driven Hwy. 40 across Texas. The vista has been destroyed, they kill thousands of birds per year, they are not reliable and there were piles of worn out blades destined to be buried. Are we sure these are a great idea?

[@ChrisBigBad]

Yes. if we were able to see the amount of coal and oil being burned every day, just as we can see these windfarms, it would be easier to accept.

[@AngelZLopez]

They purchased wind power doesn’t mean the building is being powered by it.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

Yeah if you're drawing from the grid, then you're powered by whatever the grid is powered with. There's nothing "green" about this unless you actually pay to have the wind turbine built.

[@dohj4959]

100% powered by wind energy? Mostly powered by wind energy? How many wind turbines are used for this?

[@2keyblades]

Awesome

[@pinewolfpresents]

Pretty cool

[@aarononeal9830]

If you are looking for a way to help the environment you can use ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

[@tanaross]

This is the best news I've seen today and it's only 2:52 am. Makes you want to cry almost. Thank you is all I can say, more to come I hope. ❤️

[@CurvyTribune]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@memonavaramirez6261]

I don't believe it's enough ( considering the kind of money they handle everyday ) but better late than never.

[@godispeace8144]

USA is not even in the Top 10 innovative technology anymore... What happened America? So sad. 😢

[@brian2440]

Based on?

[@godispeace8144]

@@brian2440 Science Technology and Engineering

[@brian2440]

@@godispeace8144 is this a book, journal what is the ranking based on? Is it economic, number of inventions, just popular news? I have to ask in part because a very large amount of innovation is done under the DOE and it’s becoming increasingly more apparent that a lot of people don’t actually know what the DOE does (not necessarily you, but it’s mind boggling to me that we have president whose entire climate mobilization cabinet bs doesn’t include anyone from that department)

[@godispeace8144]

@@brian2440 Just google Bloomberg "South Korea Leads World in Innovation as U.S. Exits Top Ten".

[@brian2440]

@@godispeace8144 Fair enough but the ranking is more of an evaluation of manufacturing and technology sectors for countries comparing from education to patent creation. One of the criteria for the ranking is technology company density in a country. If I have 10 new firms in US vs 10 in Korea then Korea ranks higher by this criteria even though its the same amount for both countries. The paper does acknowledge that most innovation spending comes from US and China however there are issues that impact both countries which decrease their ranking such as IP laws, patent infringement, education, country development status, amount of skilled labor etc.

[@andrewkennedy3859]

Maybe we should build wind energy wind mills the size of the Empire State building or the Chrysler Building, isn't it too bad that its normal for wind energy wind mills to be chopped down and removed after their life span of 25 years is up, they will remove the wind mills after about 25 years and even remove the concrete in the foundation footing of the windmill, because they claim that the wind mills are too old and will fall over, this is just not true, the foundations for these wind energy windmills can last for thousands of years, and if the wind energy windmills towers are getting week after so many years, wouldn't it make more sense to keep adding more material to the weekend tower to make it stronger, rather than throwing away good structure, shouldn't the wind energy wind mill blades last and last and last, nope they have to be replaced over and over again, this is what is wrong with our economy, we just build things so they are headed for the junk yard or land fill to be re melted over and over and over, should just keep driving the same car over and over for millions of miles rather than melting the car down over and over, the plastic will last for millions and millions of years right, well in that case, we have nothing to worry about because their is no reason to keep making new materials since that plastic will last so long and will never rust or rot like pot metal or wood, how about that,

[@brian2440]

There’s no real need to do that, and bigger isn’t necessarily better.

[@andrewkennedy3859]

@@brian2440 well you could put a wind mill on top of the Empire State building or Eiffel Tower and you would be generating clean energy, but i think people would protest, one of the great things about renewable energy is if you have solar or wind set up at your home or ranch, all the transmission costs are deleted, so that is 25% of the energy bill is the transmission costs, remote towns and stuff will really benefit from the transmission costs being removed, and we can use clothes lines to dry our clothes, i don't even use a clothes dryer anymore even in the winter, also i think water towers are a good source of pumped hydro batteries like grain bins for water right next to river

[@brian2440]

@@andrewkennedy3859 I mean on a larger scale the entire residential sector of the country consumes the LEAST amount of energy compared to commercial and industrial, and you’re talking about a niche section of residential..... I’m not against wind power, but from an engineering standpoint my point was that just having a bigger wind turbine isn’t always better. Also I HIGHLY DOUBT rural communities are paying realized transmission costs in their utility bills - those are sometimes billion dollar infrastructure products. You may see a slight increase if they install new distribution (which on another note your home doesn’t connect to transmission as it’s too high of voltage - that’s why we have substations).

[@TheLoveGems]

Click bait, we're the wind power at?

[@Paraboemba]

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[@rickbartha7052]

You are clickbat

[@rickbartha7052]

bait

[@fasteddie7997]

In Delaware we are fighting the skipjack wind farm project for a multitude of negative environmental things including ,cost of electric will go up about 400percent

[@bananaboatcharlie]

Not according to economists and environmentaalists. In the beginning of any of these projects the power is more costly, however as more turbines come online the costs decrease and are more competitive to existing systems (nuclear, coal, gas). Part of the economic development for Maryland is in exchange for the higher price of power. As more turbines are added to the wind farm the prices drop. As more wind farms are built along the east coast the price also drops. It's good for tourism, fishing, and putting Delaware in the forefront of the renewable energy push.

[@fasteddie7997]

When installing an offshore wind farm it has to come to land some way so you’re saying destroy our wetlands ruin a1 billion plus resort industry in three states and the list is long studies made from universities of North Carolina to Martha’s Vineyard all gave great negative impact on areas. I am not saying they are not good in areas but not here

[@johnathin0061892]

Yeah, force everyone in NY City to buy far more expensive "renewable" energy, guess who that will hurt the most? It won't be the "1%", it will be NYC's poor, the ones NowThis claim to care the most about.

[@bananaboatcharlie]

It's actually a lot cheaper if you check the numbers! Better for the environment, for the economy, and individuals. If you scroll through the comments there are lots of people talking about cheaper rennewable options in their states and cities.

[@dave_riots]

This argument was a wild ride from start to finish.

[@man-who-sold-the-world]

Trump would not be impressed with use of windpower

[@jakesteel90]

I’m calling BS on this do you have any idea how many wind turbines you need

[@Dyejob01]

This is what we need, leaders giving us the OPTION!!! I WANT this in my life, but don't have the choices, as I am not wealthy!!!

[@r.achel044]

china get on this oh wait

[@jamesziegler4383]

Horse feathers

[@thomascasey2745]

You’ve never made script running across a a screen more illegible. Come on now, you’ve never had this problem.