US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan
The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions.
US Olympics is probably being overly cautious ever since Taliyah Brooks collapsed from exhaustion when they refused to delay a US Olympic trials a couple years back due to extreme heat.
Taliyah was on pace to make it to the Olympics until that happened.
How much concrete did they pour to build the infrastructure needed to host the games? I’d really like an analysis of that and the carbon footprint left behind by a few dozen AC units over a couple weeks.
The ability to rest in climate control is going to give them an unfair advantage.
Imagine living in a hot climate country. What a unfair situation.
The ability to rest in climate control is going to give them a
n unfair advantage.FTFY
I never thought heat would be an issue in Île-de-France
It's not. Americans just can't live without AC.
That is correct. We cannot.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply air conditioners for their athletes at the Paris Games in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut carbon emissions.
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic CEO Sarah Hirshland said Friday that while the U.S. team appreciates efforts aimed at sustainability, the federation would be supplying AC units for what is typically the largest contingent of athletes at the Summer Games.
“As you can imagine, this is a period of time in which consistency and predictability is critical for Team USA’s performance,” Hirshland said.
The Washington Post reported earlier this month that Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada and Britain were among the other countries with plans to bring air conditioners to France.
According to the International Energy Agency, fewer than 1 in 10 households in Europe has air conditioning, and the numbers in Paris are lower than that.
“It’s a high-performance environment,” Australian Olympic Committee spokesman Strath Gordon explained to The Post.
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How will they install ac units ?
Probably using portable ones where you put the pipe out of the window and seal around it.
The organisers should just cut their power supply. Or disqualify the team for trying to gain an unfair advantage.
If living areas of the Olympics are getting hot enough that AC gives an advantage. They're too damn hot, and that's on France...
ACs are not being provided to reduce emissions. Everyone is being asked to accept an equal handicap, so that the world does not become even hotter in the coming years. It's largely symbolic, I agree, but I suppose kicking out a team that prioritises its medal tally over the climate crisis would send an even stronger signal.
AP again has a shit take: Olympic Village is real estate and will likely be sold off as real estate when the Olympics end. Installing AC, even if it makes sense in the short term, makes zero sense for the long term utility of the building.
What's wrong with AC if it's powered by renewable electricity?
France's energy supply is almost entirely nuclear, which isn't the easiest to ramp up and down on a minute-by-minute basis.
All electricity has some GHG footprint, and not using that electricity by definition has a lower GHG footprint. Plus, AC creates a heat island effect that forces other city occupants to also install AC, making the outside increasingly miserable over time.
In France high demand periods are met with fossil. The rest of the time it's mainly just nuclear. We don't have enough renewable energy