exception proves the rule. Most marathons are very very flat.

As the grid gets greener, they aren't 'causing' the problem anymore, just localized hotspots.

The planet will not warm to levels where AC/Heat Pumps aren't viable* cooling tech. 120-130 is well within operating ranges....for AC and heat pumps, even up to 145.

*with the caveat that if the average global temp on the planet is 130....AC will be quite a few rungs down the ladder of problems we'll be facing.

OP is just wrong.

Ask yourself what other sport has the physical demands of cycling.

3 grand tours each year that are 2000 miles long...
in 3 weeks...
over 100 miles each day...
over multiple mountains on any given day....
while sprinting on flats at 40 mph.

Plus dozens of day and several/day races.

Marathoners are the only other mainstream sport close and that's generally pretty damned flat...lol

One issue is Grand Tours. 19 days in 21 days. You need the bike basically every day.

They already x-ray every bike, every day I believe.

I also believe I've seen then use FLIR/infrared on the bikes while a race is going on. hiding a heat signature in very small spaces isn't easy.

the shifters are electronic nowadays

doesn't appear to be behind a paywall for me

but here is a non-paywall version

https://archive.ph/0IDYy

UK claims their wood pellet CO2 release is 'green' but they import a significant amount of the fuel. The CO2 release shouldn't be considered green since they didn't cut it down.

https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...

Even at 120-130F AC can cool inside just fine.

it won't be the AC that can't handle the heat....it will be the people.

Wet Bulb danger events are going to be come almost routine in humid areas. 102 and you can die if you don't have access to cooling.

can confirm the frugality. On the other end of the spectrum, some Dutch families I stayed with, literally only heated a few rooms. The bathroom was not one of them lol

mid 90s in Munich...the city trains didn't have AC at all.

Even ones that have it....large parts of housing stock can't be retrofitted easily so it's much more room to room units/mini-splits vs US style whole home HVAC systems

Fun fact: you should read entire posts.

Well, US isn't going to have such cars for at least a decade so it's still a 20-30 minute full charge.

Etc. US Grid isn't ready and needs massive upgrades...and this disaster of an admin sure isn't going to do it...nor are the 'for profit' companies that in all but name own our grids.

It's absolutely something that needs to be figured out.

I've listened to pods about it talking to grid people and one way they are trying to speed up such installations is to basically allow install, but only guarantee 50% service level, i.e. they can rate limit the charger business when grid needs require it.

That's at least a decent middle ground.

But the US power grid is *far* from being ready for much of it.

if hydrogen could be a drop in replacement for use in distribution pipelines, it would have a reason to be followed. But it doesn't. Rebuilding the infrastructure on top of it's $15-20/gallon equivalent cost is just never going to take off.

It will have a niche place out towards power grid edges and you need mobile fueling w/o solar+batteries, but that's where the cost gets justified.

I haven't seen details on the grid upgrades required to have 6-12 of such chargers running at the same time on one property. We're talking random gas stations needing massive infrastructure levels of power.

Fair to say the US grid is a decade or more of intelligent upgrade from that being viable - and realistically a lot longer.

Still not an argument for hydrogen, but the bridge to ubiquitous charging needed for true mass adoption seems fuzzy still.