Best Climate Technology EXEC: The frequency current between Europe and America has become an economic responsibility

Now depict the same scenario in a medium European city. Wake up after a night of ejaculation and transformation. You are sticky, uncomfortable, and you are already afraid to move. Confusion on a crowded train, you suffer from severe delay as you fight the transportation infrastructure in your city in the face of maximum temperatures. If you work from home, the only relief comes from a fan slowly spinning in the warm air around the room.

The main difference between these two reality? conditioning.

In the United States, 90 % From families they have AC. In Europe? only 20 % On average. In some countries, such as the United Kingdom, this number decreases to less than 5 %.

At first glance, this may seem a slight difference – feed for Taccok crawls or I responded Discussions, where Americans and Europeans make fun of each other’s capabilities to deal with summer weather. But when the temperature rises, the effect on productivity is only trivial.

Europe The increase in the productivity gap with the United States – Which has expanded since the epidemic – not just a result Organization, labor laws, or technology ingenuity. It is now about the climate. Or, more accurately, the difference in how to try the maximum temperatures.

The heat is an existential threat to some European economies

Europe is The fastest warm A continent on the ground. Essentially across AC countries, thermal waves (and increasingly do) can be increasingly) Closingand Corporate disruptionAnd make it impossible for people to work at their best. Employers are forced to transform working hours to protect employees from heat, as those who have care responsibilities are struggled to take care of the most vulnerable (children, the elderly) and families in a daily battle for comfort and efficiency. This climate weakness is not just uncomfortable, it is a serious threat to economic competitiveness.

Economists already warning Europe’s failure to adapt to a more hot future can inhibit its growth prospects. Tourism also looks ready to suffer. When heat waves become more frequent, especially in southern Europe, holiday makers began to search elsewhere In search of the most comfortable atmosphere. This represents an existential threat to the light of life for economies, especially across the Mediterranean.

Since the continent is fighting to balance the demands of climate change and economic growth, the temperature is a growing responsibility.

AC’s general invitations are increasing. In the UK, he is looking for homes with air conditioning Raised And soon AC A middle class Status code. In France, politicians like Marine Le Pen jumped on the vehicle, and announced a “The Great Plan for Air Air Condition”. You may imagine that the solution is simple: copy the American play book and put the air conditioning throughout Europe.

An attractive as it might seem, it’s not quite clear.

The network does not rise to the job

Electric air conditioning. Most European countries do not have the network infrastructure to support the transformation of this scale. This bare fragility has been placed in Italy This summer, when an increase in the demand for the thermal wave caused AC.

National networks in Europe strive on layers: struggle to keep pace with the scope of the elasticity promotions required for modern consumption, and to struggle with the size of clean energy sources that collide with communication. (Deep paradoxes that the huge amounts of solar energy caused by the hottest and dry summer – which can open AC capabilities without creating a new carbon burden – cannot be harnessed properly due to the delay of network connection.)

Through large areas of Europe, the buildings are also older and Badly. Planning restrictions are more compact and rental culture instead of having the complexity of the installation.

Collectively, besieged networks and logistical challenges mean those nights and hidden days that risk becoming an integral part of the European summer.

To escape from this link more hotter and more hot and cancel the productivity levels similar to the United States that can be brought by environments that support AC, we need more intelligent infrastructure and more investment in it.

This means using advanced modeling and AI to understand where the networks are weaker, how the demand is turned, and where the targeted small promotions can open great gains. This means simulating the future heat scenarios of energy networks in the stress test before the crisis is tried or an attempt to expand the capacity. This means replacing guessing accurately so that the fruits of investments in cooling – and the infrastructure behind it –

Only with this type of smart planning, Europe can move quickly enough to adapt to a more hot future – without burning its networks, budgets or climatic goals in this process.

Air conditioning may be repair, but without facing the challenges of basic infrastructure, Europe will continue to sweat in heat and suffer from economic consequences. And through the blessing? Well, Americans wake up from a wonderful night sleep.

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