We have seen it in many movies, but why New York has so many steam clouds emerging from the ground? I had never wondered about it, but during our trip to NYC, Mario told us about an article he had read about the NYC Steam System.
Built in the late 19th Century, it is still up und running, and the biggest district steam system in the world (everything in NYC is the largest, tallest, most important or similar in the world). To get some perspective on how important this is, a couple of figures: the 1800 customers provide Consolidated Edison more than 600 Million US Dollars revenues per year and it is used for heating, hot water, and air conditioning.
