Posted on 03/20/2024 11:49:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The athletes competing at the Paris Summer Games will have plenty of condoms, but they will not have air conditioning.
“We designed these buildings so that they would be comfortable places to live in in the summer, in 2024 and later on, and we don’t need air conditioning in these buildings because we oriented the facades so that they wouldn’t get too much sun during the summer, and the facades, the insulation is really efficient,” said Yann Krysinski, who is directing the service of infrastructure for the Games.
The buildings housing the athletes will apparently have some sort of cooling system, however. According to Reuters, cooled water will be circulated in the floors of the rooms to generate coolness.
The decision to forego traditional air conditioning is borne of the organizing committee’s desire to make the 2024 Paris Games record-breaking in terms of reducing the event’s carbon footprint.
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France has much bigger concerns.
They should say NO private jets in or out of Paris for 2 weeks before through 2 weeks after.
And if No Ac is good, then all of the venues should also do no AC.
This will alsocut down spectators, who of course, generate carbon.. So, Win Win, right?
This isn’t the advanced 21st century that I envisioned as a boy.
This is just like the hotels not washing sheets and towels every day for “environmental reasons”. The Frogs just wanted to save a few francs on energy costs, and use climate hoax as a convenient excuse.
...and also record-breaking in the number of athletes NOT staying at this Olympic Village.
(I looked it up: August in Paris typically sees temps from 58-79 degrees... but it wouldn't take much to see a few days reaching the less-than-comfortable 80's).
Make them all walk.....
A couple of questions:
1) How is the water used to cool the floors cooled? I get that underfloor cooling is a viable alternative, but if mechanical chillers are used to provide cold water, it looses quite a bit of its green cred.
2) Is the lack of AC confined to the Olympic Village or does it extend to indoor arenas? With crowds and hard working athletes, indoor air temperature could reach dangerous levels if the summer is hot and humid.
Record low ratings will also help with around the world lower emissions or something. :)
Mobs of Algerians could make it a bloodbath.
I’ll bet the organizers and other big shots will have air conditioning….
All the athletes are black this time , well from the TV ads you would think that
With the troubles in Ukraine slowly drawing NATO into the conflict, France has more immediate concerns than air conditioning at the Summer Olympics. President Macron has not ruled out sending regular French troops to Ukraine. If the Ukrainian military fails in their ability to stop the Russian invasion, the NATO countries will have to decide whether to let Russia succeed. I think Macron and the British may be looking at the Crimean War as a model, when British, French, and Ottoman troops were used to stop Russian expansion into former Ottoman territory. If that happens, it is probable the Olympics will be suspended, as they were in 1940 and 1944.
Hey, as many condoms as those as those athletes go through during the Olympics they certainly need that air condition to cool them off.
What a bunch of Hooey...”
As a boy, we had no AC. The athletes can do as we did, sit on their tree shaded porches to get relief from the heat. I’m sure that’s the building design spoken of to make AC unessential.
So all these THOUSANDS of people will be flying in jets to get there.. - THATS okay…
This is insanity on parade.
Before AC we slept in the basement on surplus army cots when it was extremely hot in the second or third floor bedrooms. We were just kids, though, not top level athletes competing in the Olympics.
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