womble16 🇺🇦

Not young and not relevant - was once neither

[Chelsea Lookback ⭐⭐ @1JamesCHELSEA]

@scott_gambier Who ever bids the highest with Brown paper bag

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@Batfox_Pictures That bongo action reminds me of this 🤣

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Still cracks me up…I know the skit, seen it numerous times, and still does the trick. Christopher Walkens is brilliant.

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@Suzierizzo1 Will there ever be a boy born that can swim faster than a shark…
https://t.co/UllQ6mgpvJ

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@wyrdtrtle @Rainmaker1973 Fair point - it took a while to forgive if not forget I grant you. Remember it well…

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@supertanskiii To be fair, he defended himself robustly against the accusation of being a sexist 😉🤣

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

#bbcqt “I'd rather have a career politician than a plumber who's a sexist!”

The question asked most about Reform’s Makerfield candidate was about comments he’s made about women.

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@Gerashchenko_en @back_the_BBC

[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...

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

What I’d like to know is how come in Britain 24°C feels like a sauna but 19°C feels like we’re back to winter. Men were topless in the supermarket a week ago, today everyone’s back in jumpers and big coats. Last week I’m browsing air conditioning units on the Argos website, this week I’ve put my heating back on! Ridiculous country. 😂

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Here it is: my 2026 manifesto for the #Makerfield By-Election. Makerfield Great Again! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@RasmusJarlov Grynnet beder allerede om mere mad 😉

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@Footballfights Paris cera toujours Paris…

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@bruce_barrett In terms of a carbon footprint that’s one giant leap against mankind!

[Ivor Heller @ivor27]

It’s a special day. 24 years ago today @AFCWimbledon was born. We never ceased to be Wimbledon’s football club from that day to this. It is my opinion but we are better off now than we would have been. It still seems like yesterday to me.
Happy Birthday Wimbledon. 🍾🍾

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@SonnerSounds @PulpLibrarian Hope this helps…
https://t.co/pSei80ztIG

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

I love Fridays. The stock markets close higher after the weekly Trump announcement of victory over Iran and we can all go on weekend feeling a little bit richer until Iran has denied that there is a deal.

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

@railnigel What possessed them to descend? 🤯😞

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

ジェットコースターの仮装をするドイツ人達まだ面白い

[womble16 🇺🇦 @womble16]

We were as punk as the Clash. They were just wussies and still are and we are not. Them and the Pistols were like the Monkees. They were put together by their managers and controlled by their managers and we were quite definitely not.

JJ Burnel of The Stranglers

[Tim Longhurst @tim_longhurst]

On the Croydon Buses - a recruitment film by London Transport