If, as one of the quotes stated, they are worried about being “on a precipice”, maybe worry about the fact that you are doing tons of construction for games facilities, and athletes and staff are flying in from all over the world.
That massively dwarfs the ac the athletes want, I’m sure by several orders of magnitude.
What a lovely metaphor for the self-created doom our species is sleep walking towards.
As people are dying from the heat, this isn’t cool.
Hidalgo, who is against countries bringing their own units, stressed earlier this year that Paris organizers would not change course.
“I think we have to trust science on two counts,” she said. “The first is what scientists are telling us about the fact that we are on the brink of a precipice. And secondly, we have to trust the scientists when they help us to construct buildings in a sober way that allows us to make do without air conditioning.”
France has the highest percentage of nuclear power of any power grid in the world and its electricity is generated emitting a very low level of carbon dioxide.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electricity
According to this, France emits about a seventh the carbon dioxide per unit of power generated as the US does. We can use seven times as much electricity in Paris as back in the US and still have about the same carbon dioxide emissions.
Kinda seems like we should just listen to the French then
the Athletes’ Village will be cooled by a system of water pipes running beneath the floorboards.
Cool, like underfloor heating but in reverse. If it works well, of course.
Officials aim to keep the rooms at between 73 to 79 degrees Fahrenheit
Nice 26c is fine.
Officials … will also provide fans.
oh, so it doesn’t work…
Why would having fans means it doesn’t work? I use fans along with AC to make the cold air distribution faster, doesn’t mean my AC is not working.
If you’re running an AC and the room is still at 24°C+ I would say it’s not working.
If the AC was set to 26 °C, you’re expecting the temp to be below 24 °C? What are you even talking about?
You’re not wrong, but if you’re setting to 26c and still need a fan, you should just set it lower.
I personally run 27c in summer and don’t need an additional fan.
I disagree, a fan is way more economical and ecological than the AC.
So you should put the fan first and if the fan is not enough then you put the AC on. Especially if it’s a ceiling fan that is almost completely quiet.
Yeah, but we’re talking about an underfloor cooling system here. They don’t really have a way to distribute the cold air like air-conditioning systems do. So in the Olympic village’s case, a fan should be needed.
26C is way too hot for me to sleep properly.
Imagine training your whole life for one Olympics where you’re at peak performance, then having it fucked up because organisers decided to do this performative nonsense.
No wonder half the teams are bringing air con.
No no, they’ll provide FANS to serve as butlers. Fetch the odd cool drink, ice cream or condoms. That sort of thing
Underfloor heating is great. Underfloor cooling without some form of dehydration will lead to condensation, moisture, and mould.
Not to mention, hot air rises up from the floor. Cold air…doesn’t.
Therefore they need ventilators
Or run the piping in the ceiling?
Indirectly they are, since they’re multistory buildings.
RIP to the top floor.
This system of water pipes could have made for excellent, very low energy heat pumps. Imagine how efficient that could be with a ground source only 5-10° away from comfortable at all times!
It’s one thing to have hotels in the city do this for the millions of tourists, but to force this on the highest performing athletes trying to achieve peak performance at the absolute most important competition of their life is kind of shitty. It’s a two week event for about 11,000 people. I’m pretty sure the AC from that doesn’t put a dent on the AC from the rest of the tourists from the event or the tourists throughout the year in freaking Paris.
The emissions from ACs for 2 weeks likely isn’t close to the emissions from all the construction they did just to host . The whole thing is ridiculous. The corrupt IOC officials watching from box seats and staying in 5 star hotels are all going to have AC.
