Once upon a meter , One World Trade was a trumpeted as the future green skyscraper in the world . It turned out to be anything but , and today , Mother Joneshas obtained documentsexplaining what the hell happened . The shortsighted reply is money , bureaucratism , bad design . Oh , and Hurricane Sandy .
The crux of the plan catch one’s breath on eminent - tech Energy Department cells that would cleanly win over natural gas into electricity . But in 2012 , Hurricane Sandy throw a piss - logged pull in those plan , flooding the cellar of the land site . “ What no medium exit cover , though , was that the flood also destroyed all nine fuel cell , ” says West .
Image : AP / John Minchillo
Today , more than two years after Sandy , the new loading docking facility still stop access to the one window through which the fuel cells could peradventure be replaced . Durst take in a statement to Climate Desk that “ in edict to replace the fuel cell that were destroy by Super Storm Sandy , One World Trade Center ’s interim loading dock needs to be disassembled , ” but did not say if or when that might occur .
Lead image : Seth Wenig / AP
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