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This is a Dupe but I'll repeat most of the rich world is doing this, it's the the poorer blacker countries that have the handicap. They fly in 15,000 people (
by aaron695 2y ago
This is a Dupe but I'll repeat most of the rich world is doing this, it's the the poorer blacker countries that have the handicap.
They fly in 15,000 people (and 9000 for the Paralympics), watched by billions. What joke to then not do AC. This is of course 100% virtue signaling for the climate cult since the air-conditioners won't actually use any power if the temperature is correct using other methods.
Top athletes from rich countries literally use hyperbaric chambers in training and the Paris Olympics won't supply African countries many who are ex-colonies the ability to set a temperature.
“We don’t have deep pockets,” said Donald Rukare, who is president of the Uganda Olympic Committee. Rukare mentioned a sweltering international sports competition in Turkey a few years ago, where athletes stayed in rooms without air-conditioning. Some federations shipped in portable units; Uganda did not. “Because we didn’t have the money,” he said.
> The objective is to keep the rooms between 23-26 degrees
This is outside the optimal sleeping temperature FYI as a normal human being going to work. This really surprised me actually, but some say it should be as low as 18C.
Athletes will have added pressures, jet lag, and be sleeping odd hours to get to spec to perform for a few minutes for the millions of $ in training.
- lxgr 2y ago> This is outside the optimal sleeping temperature FYI as a normal human being going to work. This really surprised me actually, but some say it should be as low as 18C. I'm definitely with you on that these athletes should do whatever they think is best for them for the few days that they're in the olympic village, but generally cooling down the entire world's bedrooms to 18C would be pretty catastrophic, at least using today's technology. One day, hopefully!
- berndi 2y agoAssuming a bedroom with surface area of 50 m^2 and an insulation R-value of 2 m^2K/W and an outside temperature of 30C, 300W would be required to keep the room at 18C. Cooling down 8 billion such bedrooms would require 24TW, which represents approximately a 10% increase in global power consumption. Certainly a lot, but doesn't seem "catastrophic" and is realistic with today's technology.