The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
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Net-Zero
Requiring no additional energy input from outside sources.
Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) - Gases consisting of
one molecule of nitrogen and varying numbers of oxygen molecules. Nitrogen
oxides are by-products of combustion processes and are commonly found in
the automobile exhaust and emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants.
NOx is a greenhouse gas and is an ingredient of acid rain and smog.
Non-renewable Energy Resources
Energy resources that cannot be restored or replenished by natural processes
and therefore are depleted through use. Commonly used non-renewable energy
resources include coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium.
