Sharp Mango

Shadow Minister for Mango Empowerment. Believes that Avocado Extremism is a threat to all fruitkind

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

There's a pretty sour set of English fans who always crop up during world cups who abso detest that the world cup involves lots of countries.

[Punter Phil⚽️ @punter_phil]

Small part of me wants this World Cup to completely flop so we can get back to 32 teams.

72 group games for 16 teams to be eliminated. If you win 1 group game out of 3, basically qualified. Shocking format.

[daeveningglow @InlandCaGuy]

It blows my mind that liberal supporters of Israel still just write this stuff off like "yeah those guys are terrorists" and "I don't support that" and "most Israelis don't support this" when it's stuff you simply cannot do without the state tacitly allowing it.

[Will Metcalfe @thewillmetcalfe]

I'm not sure she's thought this one through...

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

They waited 3 years to wear some very very ordinary looking shoes?

[Bradley Brownell @PluginHyBrad]

This is what I think about when a rich dork buys a 10-mile supercar from 2005.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

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[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

The French hate air conditioning.

So Paris built a 120-kilometre machine under its streets for producing cold.

It’s called Fraîcheur de Paris, and it does for summer heat what district heating did for winter: centralise the problem.

Instead of every museum, office, hotel, hospital and shop bolting its own cooling plant onto the building, Paris moves cold through pipes.

The network sends water chilled to 2 to 4°C through buried supply lines. The water enters a connected building, absorbs heat through an exchange station, then returns at 12 to 14°C to be cooled again.

It essentially functions with two pipes. One carries the cold out, the other carries heat back.

The production plants cool the circuit from 12°C to 4°C. Some sites use the Seine as a heat sink. In colder periods, the system can use the river’s own temperature for free cooling, which means the machines work less and the electricity demand drops. The Seine water doesn’t become the building water. It stays separate, passing temperature across heat exchangers.

The scale is pretty strange when you see it written down though.

It's got 15 production sites, 4 storage sites, 120 km of underground network with 924 subscribers. This has resulted in 7 million square metres cooled, and 493 GWh of cooling sold.

A cold utility running beneath one of the densest cities in Europe.

The Forum des Halles has been cooled this way since 1979. The Louvre since 1986. Galeries Lafayette, Opéra Garnier, Hôtel de Ville, Station F, La Samaritaine and the National Assembly all sit on the same idea. Tourists stand in the Louvre looking at paintings while a municipal cold loop does part of the dull work below ground.

The boring part is the breakthrough.

Cold can be stored at night in chilled water or ice, then used during daytime peaks. The network is monitored from a control room with more than 125,000 control points. A delivery station inside a building takes 5 to 7 times less space than a standalone cooling installation and avoids the roof and façade clutter that turns cities into compressor farms.

That matters because conventional air conditioning solves heat by moving it somewhere nearby. In a dense city, thousands of private machines mean thousands of outdoor units rejecting heat into streets, courtyards and roofs, plus refrigerants, noise, vibration and maintenance spread across every building.

Paris’s public cooling network has a stated coefficient of performance of 4, against 3 for a wet standalone system and 2 for a dry standalone system. Against an equivalent set of autonomous installations, Fraîcheur de Paris says the network gives 100% higher energy efficiency, 35% less electricity use, 90% fewer refrigerant-fluid emissions and 50% lower CO2 emissions.

The climate backdrop is the real reason this exists.

Paris ran a full crisis exercise called “Paris at 50°C” in 2023. Météo-France’s 2050 reference trajectory for France points to heatwave days becoming five times more frequent, hot nights rising sharply in urban centres, and some local extremes around 48°C becoming possible.

The city signed a 20-year concession in 2022 with Fraîcheur de Paris, owned 85% by ENGIE and 15% by RATP. The contract is worth a projected €2.4 billion. The plan is to extend the network by 158 km by 2042, add 20 production plants and 10 storage sites, and reach more than 3,000 subscribers, including hospitals, nurseries, schools and care homes.

This is basically the infrastructure version of admitting that summer is becoming a public systems problem...

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

@JulianSayarer Tf is an ethnonarcissist. Hell I don't even know what supposed ethnicity I am (Indian is not an ethnicity). I have a culture for sure but this is bullshit. (British Asian Muslim is closest culture to me) But I mean.

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

@MadelaineLucyH Hey can you help me print this? My printer isn't working for some reason.

Omg you don't know how to check a woman's heartbeat? *Grabs hand and places it there*

Can you teach me English, you speak it so well

How come we chat all the time and never exchanged numbers

😭😭😭

[mariana Z @mariana057]

Due to the high cost of energy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off.

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

This is the Way of the Superior Man

[Prieur du Plessis @prieurdp]

Why do people reverse into parking spaces?

At first it was one or two misdirected fools, now it's spreading like a disease.

It makes no sense. You are only making it so much harder for yourself, and everyone hates you as you block the road trying to get into the space.

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

@lisavsworld The fact some men have a feet kink, but women NEVER have a men feet kink says it all 😅😅😅

[henry @DemNationalist]

The best part about Hunter Biden being overly online is how people in his replies go “How much COKE did you SNORT before POSTING THIS you FUCKING PEDO” and Biden responds “I didn’t snort coke I smoked it” and then they respond “Haha true that, sorry man, have a good one”

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

The best Pakistani food in the world is 400 miles west of Riyadh in a shack next to a petrol station in the middle of the desert

[Dr. Bernie Sharaa | دكتور بيرني الشرع @salahscion]

The best Indian food is in the UK.

The more you know.

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

There's a reason for this but you all don't want to hear it

[jaiya @jaiyagill]

before you invest in a startup always ask how tall the founders are

[George Panos Tsiolis @gptsiolis]

It looks like we will all be on some dose of a GLP-1 sooner than later. More and more incredible non-weight related benefits are being discovered as clinical studies continue.

- Cancer progression is crushed
- Livers completely heal
- Cartilage regenerates in joints
- Powerful immune modulation

...and so much more...plus all of the benefits we've yet to identify.

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

@johndotwills I mean we've had the concept of customs, excise, and smuggling for well over a thousand years. Could it be that this very very basic old logic is now lost.

[Sharp Mango @SharpMango]

@jakonian I have a theory that five pillars is a honeypot. They have nutcase philosophies which attract nutcases. MI5 can then utilise this information to further investigate the nutcases and threat assess.

Because surely people can't be that stupid just for the love of the game???

[Olive 🌿 @oliveegirl]

A lot of Sunni Muslims were killed by daesh. Literally Sunni Muslim Egyptian soldiers were martyred fighting daesh in Sinai & we also bombed daesh in Libya.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

pretty decent encapsulation of the last few years on here