France has much bigger concerns.
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).
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.
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...”
So all these THOUSANDS of people will be flying in jets to get there.. - THATS okay…
This is insanity on parade.
I don’t believe orientation of the building and insulation alone can keep a building cool.
Heat waves have caused nearly 33,000 deaths in France since 2014
aroma...
The last time that I stayed at a hotel in Europe they were REQUIRED to set their thermostat no lower than 78 degrees (in the summer, of course). They are literally SICK over there, as I never had similar problems in Third World places (like Los Angeles or Haiti).
I competed in the World Benchrest Championship last September...same venue and award hall they are using for the shooting events. A/C worked fine.
There’s a method to the madness. They’re only doing this so everyone visiting Paris for the Olympics will smell as bad as the Parisians.
Hoping for a heat wave
Idiots.