Post your practical ideas to stay cool in a heatwave?

[peas_and_corn]

Why exactly can the trams not run in hot weather?

[Will409]

At the moment, one of the substations on the line has given out so part of the line at the Glenelg end is out of action at the moment (these substations were going to be replaced soon anyway) but the airconditioner compressors are not ideally suited. The main blower units were replaced with much larger ones over a year ago as well as the ducting inside the tram saloon but the compressors are still the stock standard ones fitted by the manufacturer. The simple solution is to replace the compressors with larger ones and that SHOULD help the situation out. At the present time, a large number of the Flexi fleet are running with the roof top valancing removed in a bid to improve the airflow to the roof mounted equipment.

This photo by BillD shows what I mean.

[Norman]

2008
3-Mar 35.4
4-Mar 35.7
5-Mar 37.9
6-Mar 38.5
7-Mar 39.0
8-Mar 39.8
9-Mar 40.2
10-Mar 40.0
11-Mar 38.4
12-Mar 39.2
13-Mar 39.7
14-Mar 38.6
15-Mar 38.3
16-Mar 39.9
17-Mar 40.5

2009
26-Jan 36.6
27-Jan 43.7
28-Jan 45.7
29-Jan 43.4
30-Jan 43.1
31-Jan 40
1-Feb 40
2-Feb 39
3-Feb 38
4-Feb 38
5-Feb 40

Thankfully, the 5th will be 37 now and the 6th 35... hopefully it will end there.

[pushbutton]

turn the Air conditioner on flat out 24/7

screw the enviroment!!!

Only trouble being that if everyone did that then there'd be power cuts all over the place so at any given time you could be the one with no power, and therefore no air-con!

GREAT idea though!

[pushbutton]

Carbon offsets seem like a scam to me. If entity A isn't pissing in the lemonade then entity B can pay entity A so that entity B can piss in the lemonade...

I reckon it's going to turn out to be one of the biggest public scams in decades!!!. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who can see that.

Those who think for themselves rather than just blindly believe whatever they are told will know that carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe, is present in all living organisms and in the air we breath, and has been around in abundance for as long as the earth has existed and probably many thousands or maybe millions of years before that. Carbon dioxide is produced by all animals and other non-plant organisms and is essential for the growth of plants. It is of course comprised quite simply of carbon and oxygen, both of which are plentiful and not only harmless, but essential for supporting life.

This is basic science we all learned at primary school but many of us have apparently been fooled into forgetting!

Carbon dioxide is what makes fizzy drinks fizzy. Most of us drink it regularly and as far as I know nobody has died of it yet!

Why then should we now believe that it's suddenly become dangerous?

Honestly a couple of decades from now people will laugh at our gullibility in believing this nonsense! It's just another way for governments to impose another new tax, under the guise of doing something both "good" and "necessary". It just drives me mad!

Incidentally has anyone else noticed the media has now more or less stopped going on about global warming and replaced it with "climate change" and talk of "carbon footprints". Obviously they caught on to the fact that the public are finally becoming aware now that global warming stopped in the late 1990s and was only part of the normal warming and cooling cycle anyway.

There's nothing wrong with people and companies being environmentally friendly, but do we really need all the hysteria and unnecessary expenses (especially when the global economy is struggling anyway)?

[pushbutton]

Sorry, back to the topic.

I'm fortunate to have air-con in my home, work and car and the only other places I am going to are shopping malls that also have air-con, and Adelaide aquatic centre where I can keep cool in the water.

At home I normally use the air-con quite sparingly but this last week or so it's been on almost all the time that Im home. I also use an electric fan in the lounge and one in the bedroom at night. I'm also drinking a lot more than normal (water that is!) and keeping the blinds mostly closed.

So far I've not had much trouble with the heat but I pity anyone who works outdoors!

[Wayno]

At 5:08pm today it was 40.6! that's 6 days in a row above 40degrees...

[Omicron]

No, Rann & Co, I will not be made to feel guilty for not checking on every elderly resident in the street, or for turning on the air-conditioner during the hottest weather in my lifetime. I will not have you turn the failure of a service that I pay for into my failure to perform my supposed duties as a citizen, and I will not have you throw the concept of Anzac mateship in my face as a nationalist appeal to the lemmings scurrying about in the dregs of society. I refuse to believe that that was all you could come up with in the meetings of the Emergency Management Council (and god help us if that is all you could come up with), so I'll be damned if I'll sit here and let you all throw out this meaningless dross as some kind of non-confrontational peace offering to the nodding masses. You're not exempt from this, Mr. Patrick 'If I Could Change The Weather, I'd Have Cut My Holiday Short!' Conlon, and I note Minister Karlene 'If It Rained, We'd Have More Water!' Maywald's thought-provoking silence as we slurp our way through record volumes of water.

[crawf]

Current temp
Adelaide...30.9C

Adelaide today
City - 39C
Elizabeth - 39C
Mt Barker - 37C
Noarlunga - 34C

Today.....max 39C/ min 25C
Tuesday.....max 38C/ min 22C
Wednesday.....max 38C/ min 22C
Thursday.....max 38C/ min 21C
Friday.....max 35C/ min 19C
Saturday....max 30C/ min 22C
Sunday.....max 25C/ min 17C

[UrbanSG]

I haven't seen so many plane trees loosing so many of their leaves this early in the year before. Most have just been burnt to a crisp due to the heat and lack of water.

I hope they recover after winter, otherwise there could be a lot of dead street trees around Adelaide by the end of 2009.

Even the new landscaping along the new portion of the tramtrack through the CBD is burning and lawn around town well that is a whole other story. Depressing times indeed.

One of Adelaide's best features is all our trees, gardens etc if they go too it won't have that same charm to it anymore.

[monotonehell]

Carbon offsets seem like a scam to me. If entity A isn't pissing in the lemonade then entity B can pay entity A so that entity B can piss in the lemonade...

I reckon it's going to turn out to be one of the biggest public scams in decades!!!. I'm so glad I'm not the only one who can see that.

Those who think for themselves rather than just blindly believe whatever they are told will know that carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe, is present in all living organisms and in the air we breath, and has been around in abundance for as long as the earth has existed and probably many thousands or maybe millions of years before that. Carbon dioxide is produced by all animals and other non-plant organisms and is essential for the growth of plants. It is of course comprised quite simply of carbon and oxygen, both of which are plentiful and not only harmless, but essential for supporting life.

This is basic science we all learned at primary school but many of us have apparently been fooled into forgetting!

Carbon dioxide is what makes fizzy drinks fizzy. Most of us drink it regularly and as far as I know nobody has died of it yet!

Why then should we now believe that it's suddenly become dangerous?

Honestly a couple of decades from now people will laugh at our gullibility in believing this nonsense! It's just another way for governments to impose another new tax, under the guise of doing something both "good" and "necessary". It just drives me mad!

Incidentally has anyone else noticed the media has now more or less stopped going on about global warming and replaced it with "climate change" and talk of "carbon footprints". Obviously they caught on to the fact that the public are finally becoming aware now that global warming stopped in the late 1990s and was only part of the normal warming and cooling cycle anyway.

There's nothing wrong with people and companies being environmentally friendly, but do we really need all the hysteria and unnecessary expenses (especially when the global economy is struggling anyway)?

Whoah there PB. You completely misread my comment. I said that the carbon trading scheme is the scam, not climate change which IS happening. We need to stop, not subsidise some people who keep doing it by creating a market place to trade excuse slips. Your above comment regarding fizzy drinks seems to show some ignorance on the matter. Or were you making a joke? Sorry it's hard to tell online sometimes.

The points are: Global climate change is a fact. People stopped calling it Global Warming because pedants became picky about the name where part of the science shows that some places will cool, some will warm, but overall the average temps will and have risen. So the name was changed to better reflect the reality.

Even if we are not the cause -- we still need to change our ways fundamentally or perish. The climate is changing, we need to adapt.



Meanwhile, back on topic, I stayed cool by staying at work longer, and then not going home much. I have no A/c at home so I went to Fumo Blu and other interesting places where they do have A/c. Expensive week for me...

[Norman]

Meanwhile, back on topic, I stayed cool by staying at work longer, and then not going home much. I have no A/c at home so I went to Fumo Blu and other interesting places where they do have A/c. Expensive week for me...

Fumo Blu? At Glenelg? My parents love that place

[Paulns]

Here's a simple temporay idea - Hang a cold wet towel or sheet in front of a fan. The air should blow through cool, like a basic air conditioner.

[Wayno]

we never had a/c when i was a "babe in arms", so my mum used to place the kitchen table on its side near the backdoor (table legs facing the door), drape a wet sheet over the legs (creating a tent of sorts), and placed my bassinet under it...aahh, such luxury

Come to think of it, this could be the reason I like camping so much!

[pushbutton]

This thread is not about climate change so I won't mention any more about it after this, but I'll just say that yes, I agree that the worlds climate is changing. My point though is that it has ALWAYS been changing!