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A total of 10,048 people were taken to hospital with heatstroke in Japan in the week through July 6, more than twice the number a week earlier, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said in a preliminary report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/japan/society/heatstroke-hospital/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #hospitals #heatstroke #airconditioners
The Japan Times · Over 10,000 people sent to hospital last week due to heatstroke
A surge in metal thefts across Japan has prompted the National Police Agency to draft stricter identification rules for secondhand metal dealers in order to prevent the resale of stolen goods. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/japan/crime-legal/dealers-air-conditioners/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #theft #metals #airconditioners #npa #japanesepolice
The Japan Times · NPA to toughen ID rules for metal dealers amid surge in stolen AC units
It’s officially #summer, and the #grid is stressed
#AI and #airconditioners are colliding as #temperatures rise.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/26/1119358/summer-grid-ai-air-conditioning/
MIT Technology Review · It’s officially summer, and the grid is stressed
Aarti Verma is about to join the growing ranks of Indians installing air conditioning, scraping together savings to secure relief from sometimes deadly temperatures that can reach nearly 50 Celsius. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/india-air-conditioning-demand-increase/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #airconditioners #india #heatwaves #climatechange
The Japan Times · Indians buy 14 million air conditioners a year, and need many more
The soft, waxy "solid refrigerant" being investigated in a U.K. laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual properties promise an air-conditioning revolution that could eliminate the need for greenhouse gases. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/13/world/science-health/uk-lab-solid-refrigerant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #uk #emissions #airconditioners
The Japan Times · U.K. lab promises air conditioner revolution without polluting gases
Deep in the bowels of the U.N. headquarters, a pump sucks in huge amounts of water from the East River to help cool the complex with an old but energy-efficient mechanism. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/05/13/climate-change/un-water-cooling-pipes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #un #water #energy #climatechange #airconditioners
The Japan Times · As world heats up, U.N. cools itself the cool way — with water
Everything Is About to Change in Our #AirConditioners:
Revolutionary #Cooling #Tech Replaces Toxic #Refrigerants With Recyclable Metals Forever
Sustainability Times · Everything Is About to Change in Our Air Conditioners: Revolutionary Cooling Tech Replaces Toxic Refrigerants With Recyclable Metals Forever - Sustainability TimesIN A NUTSHELL 🌍 Slovenian researchers are developing a sustainable cooling technology using recyclable metals, aiming to replace harmful refrigerants. 🔧 The innovative method employs nickel-titanium alloy and relies on mechanical stress for cooling, avoiding phase changes from liquid to gas. 📉 This approach addresses the environmental impact of traditional systems, which contribute significantly to
Temperatures have cooled off here in New Orleans.
Now that it's the time of year when they get a well-deserved rest, a small photographic tribute to the window unit air conditioners of New Orleans,
Photos by Infrogmation of New Orleans.
1)Uptown
2)Bywater
3)Carrollton
4)French Quarter
@noladon
#NOLA #NewOrleans #AirConditioners #AirConditioning
With extreme heat affecting both health and study, schools in Japan are racing to plug air conditioning gaps while experimenting with creative, cheaper solutions to keep students’ minds focused on textbooks and not high temperatures. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/09/16/japan/society/extreme-heat-education-cooling/ #japan #society #climatechange #heat #heatwaves #heatstroke #schools #education #children #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #nerima #airconditioners
The Japan Times | Special FeaturesJapan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC - The Japan Times | Special FeaturesWith extreme heat affecting both health and study, schools are racing to plug AC gaps while experimenting with creative, cheaper solutions.
Daikin Industries, the world’s largest manufacturer of air conditioners, is looking to expand in India as it responds to consumer demand for what’s become a necessity as temperatures soar. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/09/03/companies/daikin-india-expansion/ #business #companies #daikin #india #airconditioners #climatechange
The Japan Times · Daikin, world’s No. 1 air-conditioner maker, to expand capacity in India
Shipments of air conditioners in July jumped 18% year on year to 1,306,000 units, up for four consecutive months. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/09/01/japan-air-conditioner-sales-boom/ #business #airconditioners #climatechange #heat
The Japan Times · Japan air conditioner sales booming amid scorching heat
[Paywall] America Has a #HotSteel Problem
#Railways, #roads, #PowerLines, #batteries—the heat of #ClimateChange is making them all falter.
By Zoë Schlanger
August 14, 2024
"A basic fact of thermodynamics is coming to haunt every foot of train track in the United States. Heat makes steel expand, moving its molecules farther apart, and as hot days become hotter and more frequent, rail lines are at risk of warping and buckling more often.
"Any fix must deal with this fundamental truth of physics. #Railroads can slow their trains down, which avoids adding more heat. Or they can leave gaps in a rail (or cut them as an emergency measure), which relieves pressure that causes track to bulge but means a potentially bumpier and slower ride. Painting tracks white would help deflect heat, but the paint would need to be reapplied frequently. Adapting to this reality will be expensive, and might ultimately just look as it does now: slow the trains, cut the track, issue a delay.
"Our #infrastructure is simply becoming too hot to function, or at least function well. High heat can also cause bridges to fail, for the same reason as with train tracks. Roads can buckle, thanks to the thermodynamics of concrete and asphalt. In Alaska, where permafrost is thawing into a substrate more akin to a waterbed, roads can resemble an undulating line of ribbon candy. Heat has two effects on #PowerTransmission, and 'both of them are bad,' Bilal Ayyub, a civil-engineering professor at the University of Maryland, told me. One, heat reduces how much electricity power lines can deliver. Two, heat increases demand—everyone turns on their #AirConditioners in unison—further straining an already heat-strained grid, sometimes to its breaking point."
The Atlantic · America Has a Hot-Steel Problem
To combat this summer's heat waves both day and night, Japanese companies are encouraging people to utilize products and services aimed at helping them avoid heatstroke while sleeping. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/16/japan/society/nighttime-heatstroke-prevention/ #japan #society #heatwaves #airconditioners #heatstroke #heat
The Japan Times · Japanese companies aim to help prevent nighttime heatstroke
the long shadow of a winter’s Sunday morning.
#sunday #morning #walks #winter #bendigo #latergram #walls #brick #AirConditioners #signs
#sunday #morning #walks #winter #bendigo #latergram #walls #brick #AirConditioners #signs
From 2011:
In Tennessee, #HeatWaves Diminish #Nuclear Power Output
By Alyson Kenward
April 10, 2011
"On July 8, 2010, as the temperature in downtown Decatur, Alabama climbed to a sweltering 98°F, operators at the #BrownsFerry #NuclearPowerPlant a few miles outside of town realized they had only one option to avoid violating their #environmental permit: turn down the reactors. For days, the Tennessee Valley Authority (#TVA), which owns the nuclear plant, had kept a watchful eye on the rising mercury, knowing that more heat outside could spell trouble inside the facility. When the #TennesseeRiver, whose adjacent waters are used to cool the reactors, finally hit 90°F and forced Browns Ferry to run at only half of their regular power output, the TVA hoped the hot spell would last just a few days.
"Eight weeks of unrelenting heat later, the plant was still running at half its capacity, robbing the grid of power it desperately needed when electricity demand from #AirConditioners and fans was at its peak. The total cost of the lost power over that time? More than $50 million dollars, all of which was paid for by TVA’s customers in Tennessee.
"The Browns Ferry nuclear plant, located on the Wheeler Reservoir along the Tennessee River near Athens, Alabama. It has three reactors, each producing about 1000 megawatts of electricity. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
“'Last summer, the water in the Tennessee River warmed up early and stayed warm,' says TVA spokesman Ray Golden. 'When it got hot again in July and August, we were impacted by that and had to reduce power at the plant and get it from somewhere else.'
"With river water so warm, the #NuclearPlant couldn’t draw in as much water as usual to cool the facility's three reactors, or else the water it pumped back into the river could be hot enough to harm the local #ecosystem, says Golden. But for every day that the Browns Ferry plant ran at 50 percent of its maximum output, the TVA had to spent $1 million more than usual to purchase power from somewhere else, he says.
"What happened in northern Alabama last summer, at the largest of TVA's nuclear power plants, did not present a human safety concern. Operators knew there was never a risk of an explosion or nuclear meltdown, nor was there a threat of leaking radioactive material. But the prolonged spell of hot weather put the TVA at risk of violating environmental permits, with hefty fines as one consequence and potential harm to the Tennessee River ecosystem as another.
"It’s not the first time high temperatures have affected the performance of the Browns Ferry plant, and extreme heat is a growing concern for power plant operators across the #Southeast. While some nuclear plants can improve their cooling procedures to cope with the intake of warmer water, the upgrades can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and still don’t offer an indefinite defense against extreme heat. Because scientists say the Southeast (like many other parts of the world) can expect to see more frequent and intense heat waves by the end of this century, the problems for nuclear power and the people that rely on it for electricity may only be beginning.
#ExtremeHeat Limits Nuclear Energy Production
"The disaster still unfolding at Japan’s #FukushimaDaiichi nuclear plant has refocused America's attention on nuclear power, calling into question its future role in the country's energy portfolio. Many advocates of nuclear power say that we need to maintain — and even expand — nuclear power to get away from using fossil fuels, such as coal, and to help lower greenhouse gas emissions.
"But nuclear power has a paradoxical relationship with #ClimateChange. Even though it might help mitigate long-term #GlobalWarming, nuclear power is already being challenged by rising temperatures and the increasing number of heat waves around the world. Throughout the last decade, several plants have had to reduce electricity production during heat waves, just when when electricity demand typically reaches peak levels.
“'It’s a dilemma between mitigation of climate change, and adaptation to it,' says Natalie Kopytko, an energy policy doctoral student at the University of York in England. Having recently studied the ways in which climate change could have a negative impact on nuclear power, she says nuclear power is caught in the middle because it could be used to help lower greenhouse gas emissions, but global warming is making the technology less effective at providing electricity."
Read more:
https://www.climatecentral.org/news/in-tennessee-heat-waves-frustrate-nuclear-power
#Greenwashing #NoNukes
#NoNewNukes #NuclearPowerPlant #NuclearPlants #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #RethinkNotRestart #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeTemperatures #ExtremeWeather #ExtremeHeat
www.climatecentral.orgIn Tennessee, Heat Waves Diminish Nuclear Power Output | Climate CentralWith heat waves on the rise, last summer's nuclear slowdown in Tennessee may be a sign of things to come.
The #US Olympic team is one of a handful that will supply #AirConditioners for their athletes at the #ParisGames in a move that undercuts organizers’ plans to cut #CarbonEmissions. #ParisOlympics2024
US Olympic and other teams will bring their own AC units to Paris, undercutting environmental plan
https://apnews.com/article/olympics-air-conditioning-paris-0f753df91956f3fe61ad4febaff0ebb9
AP News · Olympics 2024: US teams will bring their own AC units to Paris
Anyone who’s had to go to work on a hot summer day knows how exhausting it can be. Brain function slows, commuting is more uncomfortable and, for people who work outdoors, simply staying safe becomes a challenge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/06/22/heat-worker-productivity-risk/ #business #jobs #heatwaves #health #climatechange #airconditioners
The Japan Times · When hot weather arrives, worker productivity is at risk
Many parts of #India have been in the grip of a #heatwave since mid-May. Overnight temperatures of about 33C (91F) have meant there is little to no respite from the heat.
Demand for #electricity has soared due to #fans, #AirCoolers and #AirConditioners being run constantly, placing a strain on the grid in #Delhi and elsewhere in the north. #ClimateCrisis
Indian engineers warn of prolonged #blackouts amid searing heatwave
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/18/india-engineers-blackouts-heatwave-north
The Guardian · Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave