The Vertical Grid: Why Sky-Ducting is the Solution to Urban Heat Islands
Cities are overheating. We analyze the engineering and financial case for 'Vertical Cooling Grids' and the end of the window-unit AC era.
R. Yitaliya
Head of Quantitative Content
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The Lead
The 'Concrete Jungle' is quite literally cooking its inhabitants. As global temperatures rise, the 'Urban Heat Island' effect is making cities almost uninhabitable in the summer months. The solution is moving from individual AC units to 'Vertical Grids'—massive sky-ducts that vent heat directly into the high-altitude atmosphere. We analyze the CAPEX required for this municipal-scale cooling and why it is the only way to save the density of our cities.
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