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Would love to David, but for purposes of an *informed* discussion, it would be better for someone more knowledgeable to lead it, and with a background. I can spout off, but I do not have a *working* background in sustainability, in urban issues (I hate 'urbanist'), and the like. Those people are out there. Can't they be found? Let me wrack my brain to think of people. Well, Harriet Tregoning for starters - but more need to be filled in for a well-rounded discussion. Let's have it!! Please!

Well, Jasper, you said 7-8 story buildings are high rises, not me! But the reason I focus on that is that so very many people in Washington, DC live in such buildings. Maybe not quite the majority but nearly so. So, that is why, for one reason. The elderly and infirm, for instance, would SEEM to cope better without electricity in a house than an apartment, especially an apartment in which the elevator goes out, which of course does happen. Apartments, being smaller usually than houses, have a limited number of rooms to escape the heat to. Does that help?

I am not saying that being in a house without power is a piece of cake, but many of us lived that reality growing up (frequent power outages), and it was definitely do-able. In a building you refer to a high rise, especially a unit on one of the higher floors, the temperature can get to 85 degrees and higher. What is the effect on one's health? At 30 years of age? At 60? At 85? At 1 year. At six months?

And so on.

by Jazzy on Jul 8, 2012 11:23 am • link • report