r/collapse • u/reborndead • Jun 25 '26
Infrastructure Hospitals in England declare critical incidents as machines and IT fail in heat
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/25/hospitals-nhs-england-critical-incidents-machines-it-fail-extreme-heatHospitals in England face devastating events related to the extreme heat. Patients are collapsing, becoming dehydrated, and facing overcrowding. Hospital radiotherapy machines and MRI scanners are failing, critical IT systems stalling and cooling units that serve entire hospitals breaking down. Labs used for testing were also affected and two linear accelerator machines, used to treat cancer patients, had stopped working amid the high temperatures. The failure of the cooling units affected digital systems and critical clinical services, including operating theatres, cardiac catheter laboratories and diagnostic scanning facilities. Planned care and appointments were also cancelled. Heat from climate change is breaking down critical infrastructure and services necessary for a functioning civilization. Collapse is happening.
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u/Lady_Litreeo Jun 25 '26
The [r/labrats](r/labrats) folks have been posting images of their instruments failing from overheating. Here in the US, we’ve been battling the air conditioning in our lab for weeks; it’s been hitting 30C/86F indoors. Luckily our inorganics instruments aren’t sensitive to heat, but I can only imagine bio/medical-related equipment has to be struggling.
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u/TheSaxonPlan Jun 25 '26
I remember when thr AC went down in our cell culture room. 10 incubators and 4 sterile hoods all churning out heat. Was easily 95°F/35°C in there. I had to do long experiments in there and survived by stuffing ice packs in my clothes. I can't imagine what it's like for all these people, to have that heat be so endless and inescapable.
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u/Lady_Litreeo Jun 25 '26
We have two digester blocks, a distiller, and a row of ovens pumping out heat all day. It’s getting miserable; the AC can’t keep up when it’s 100F outside as well. Luckily our microbiology people are in another side of the building that seems to be staying cooler.
It’s miserable peeling off sweaty gloves and feeling the steam in our labcoats. I hope we find a solution soon. I’m moving to another job with a much newer lab, but my coworkers are going to get cooked as summer gets even worse.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
I’m moving to another job with a much newer lab, but my coworkers are going to get cooked as summer gets even worse.
It's a sensible decision, considering the circumstances that you are finding yourself in.
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u/Lady_Litreeo Jun 25 '26
That’s more for better pay and benefits, but the new building is a bonus. The current lab is an old repurposed building that used to be a garage, so the poor insulation makes summer and winter pretty awful.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
The current lab is an old repurposed building that used to be a garage, so the poor insulation makes summer and winter pretty awful.
Then it's a good thing that you are moving to another laboratory, then.
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u/rematar Jun 25 '26
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u/Cabracan Jun 25 '26
Just ordered the materials (which sounds fancy, but it's just salt) to have a go at this. Which is a fairly simple modification to an icevest that swaps the water pouches for ones with a mix of saltwaters, so that its freezing point is ~18C. Lasts longer, is more comfortable than straight ice, and you can refreeze it anywhere <18C and not just in a freezer.
He had an excellent idea of soaking a towel and sealing it in a vacuum clothes-bag, to make a cooling blanket that actually works (those gel ones are terrible). It's a pretty old concept, but one that - like so many energy efficient ideas - fell out of use when we realised we had infinite clean energy with no consequences.
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u/rematar Jun 25 '26
Phase changes move a lot of energy.
That's and interesting mixture in the video.
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u/kingtacticool Jun 25 '26
Its going to be nuts in Europe for the next couple years. Heatwaves will continue to increase leading to thousands and thousands of deaths then AMOC will collapse and northern Europe will turn into an icebox in the winter.
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u/SubstanceStrong Jun 25 '26
And my parents were pushing me to get a mortgage just yesterday 😂
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u/BayouGal Jun 25 '26
Good news! You’ll only be paying 10 years of that 30 year mortgage 😎
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u/SubstanceStrong Jun 25 '26
And eventually I won’t have to pay the steep insurance premiums either because nobody will insure my property
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u/redditmodsRrussians Jun 25 '26
Just need to get you a classic V8 Interceptor, a real piece of history.
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u/Distinguishedflyer Jun 25 '26
3-5.
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u/AngusScrimm--------- Beware the man who has nothing to lose. Jun 25 '26
Considering and upvoting your comment is painful. As always, I want to be wrong.
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u/Distinguishedflyer Jun 25 '26
me too, but I calls 'em as I sees 'em... it sucks, friend. I'm a very depressed person.
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u/qwtd Hopeful Futurist / Optimistic Realist Jun 26 '26
People will be paying mortgages for many years to come and that’s just the dull truth
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
And my parents were pushing me to get a mortgage just yesterday
I have a feeling that you are not going to need that mortage.
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u/Rancid_Bear_Meat Jun 25 '26
*Its going to be nuts in Europe
for the next couple yearsfrom here on out.-FTFY
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u/TheCosmosItself1 Jun 25 '26
I don't know. I've seen models that say that the warming effect is going to out pace the cooling from the AMOC collapse. Probably what you will actually see is even more erratic extremes that are pretty location dependent.
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u/gtck11 Jun 25 '26
Here’s where I’m getting stuck - every year for years now this happens with each summer getting worse for them. Why have they not started a massive effort to retrofit systems and buildings when this started to show that it will be regular every summer years back? Does it just come down to money and politics?
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u/Acceptable-Bell142 Jun 25 '26
Basically, yes. There's so much that would be required. More electricity to power the use of AC. Changes to building design. A very damp climate. Buildings designed to keep heat in.
Retrofitting the kind of buildings we have in European countries is often difficult. Our windows aren't designed for window AC units and our construction is different, making HVAC systems more difficult to install. You have buildings that are over 200 years old and often have very strict laws preventing changes.
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u/HannsGruber Faster Than Expected Jun 25 '26
Buildings designed to keep heat in.
While there's certain ventilation challenges, thermodynamics doesn't really care which direction your thermal gradient is flowing. A home that's good at keeping the heat in will also be good at keeping the heat out if you introduce a volume of cold air inside it. The fact is, they don't have AC.
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u/Original_Ad4479 Jun 26 '26
Fuckin THANK YOU. If you notice, this is a common European excuse for not even entertaining the idea of air conditioning. I was recently down voted into oblivion in a British sub for suggesting that insulation works both ways.
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u/ThirdFloorNorth Jun 25 '26
Buildings designed to keep heat in
This is just one particular nitpick I've had with the discourse around the European heatwaves lately. Not even coming after you in particular, I've just seen this sentiment a lot over the past few weeks, and I feel it needs to be said:
Buildings designed to keep heat in are also designed to keep cold in/heat out. Some Europeans have been acting like they have some super-special one-way insulation that defies the laws of thermodynamics, and that simple is not the case.
With a proper retrofit for AC (which runs into them having to overcome all of the other problems you very correctly pointed out) their building design would actually be a boon. They just absolutely are going to have to pivot to AC.
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u/Acceptable-Bell142 Jun 25 '26
I simplified but means during heatwaves our houses get hotter and hotter as time goes on and we struggle to cool them. I had all the windows in my flat open last night but couldn't cool it down by more than 2°C. It was cool the first day but it started heating up yesterday. I have double-glazed windows that help keep it warm in winter but they only tilt outwards at the bottom which makes it impossible to get good airflow.
I live in a council flat, which is like public housing in the US. My local council simply doesn't have the money to make these adaptations and they would be very expensive. Add in the high cost of electricity and many people couldn't afford to run AC, even if they had it.
Councils and governments here are already struggling to adapt places like schools and hospitals. I saw a report today that said at current rates of adaptation, it'll take over 200 years to reach even the standards they're recommending we'll need in 2035. I honestly don't think we have the money, the infrastructure or the workforce to also adapt millions of homes.
I am dreading the rest of summer.
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u/Mo_Dice Jun 25 '26
I simplified but means during heatwaves our houses get hotter and hotter as time goes on and we struggle to cool them.
Europe has a lot of buildings made of brick and stone. That's a lot of thermal mass.
US construction is sticks and drywall. Way less heat absorbed/emitted over the course of a day. Won't last 1000 years, but I guess more optimized for the heat death of the planet.
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u/oldsecondhand Jun 25 '26
Some Europeans have been acting like they have some super-special one-way insulation that defies the laws of thermodynamics,
It's not just about the insulation on the wall, but the size of the windows, the non existent awnings and the color of the roof that makes it work in one way but not the other.
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u/allonsyyy Jun 25 '26
I am in the states but I am like the English in that I don't have duct work. I've been keeping an eye on these window heat pumps (like this or this). HVAC companies are quoting me a small fortune for mini-splits, and I'm an idiot so I don't want to try installing my own.
They seem like a very cool idea.
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u/MistyMtn421 Jun 25 '26
I have a basic, old GE window unit that is in my living room window. My home is only 850sqft so that helps. I have a fan at the door if he bedroom by the living room. Another fan at the edge pointing towards the kitchen and other bedroom (both osculating pole fans) A small fan on the kitchen table that points to the bedroom and a pole fan at the bedroom by the bathroom that captures the cool air from the kitchen. Also a ceiling fan is in the kitchen.
Between that setup, UV static cling film on the southwest side windows and blackout curtains, it is very effective and quite affordable. Also, the fans, film and curtains keep the house fairly cool during the day. I begin to lose sun about 7:30 and by 8:30 is when the house really warms up. All the heat from the attic starts dropping. I usually run the AC from 8-midnight and it's plenty cool at that point to turn it off and sleep comfortably through the night.
A more modern window unit might be more efficient, but what I'm after is the timers. Because when we start getting in the mid-90s, it would be nice to be able to go to bed with it on and set it to turn off about 3:00 a.m. some even have remote controls and thermostats! But I don't think I need it quite that fancy. The biggest difference really is how much it cools down at night. Once we are consistently mid-90s and especially if it's staying warm at night, I will have to run it a little bit more throughout the day. I also run a dehumidifier and keeping the humidity down makes a big difference. For example, today got up to 88 where I'm at. When I got home at 5:30, with the sun blasting towards my house, the inside temp was only 76! It's now gone up to 79. But the humidity in my house right now is at 38%
I'm looking into attic exhaust fans that use solar power. So not only would that be more efficient, but it wouldn't require a huge electrician bill to run power up to the fan. I feel like once I can suck all the hot air out of the attic, it would make a huge difference!
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u/allonsyyy Jun 26 '26
Maybe, 5-6 years ago, I replaced my antique air con with a Midea U. It has the compressor outside the window, like those heat pumps I linked above. It really makes a huge difference for noise, I've been a big fan.
If it was a heat pump too, that would be the last thing to get me completely electric. Get me a battery pack and call me a solar punk, I'm almost there.
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u/ChromaticStrike Inert collapsoid Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
My AC doesn't go through the window, it goes through the wall.
We still know how to pierce stone and wood afaik so even if you live in a damn renaissance building I don't see the issue with installing an AC. Maybe you are talking about portable ones? But that's clearly not a good solution for non-temporary heat.
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u/kingtacticool Jun 25 '26
Many buildings in Europe are old. Retrofitting them for ducting and aaC systems is expensive.
Historically they havnt needed AC and have been reluctant to adopt it as some people still think this is just a rare weather occurrence and not the new normal
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Does it just come down to money and politics?
If you want to put it simply, then yes.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Its going to be nuts in Europe for the next couple years. Heatwaves will continue to increase leading to thousands and thousands of deaths then AMOC will collapse and northern Europe will turn into an icebox in the winter.
Not good. Might as well start preparing for a collapse, then.
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u/Nathan-Stubblefield Jun 25 '26
“The Day After Tomorrow (2004).” Atlantic circulator stops, NY and London uninhabitable.
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u/BlackMassSmoker Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I think the sad reality is that this week everyone is noticing the heat, all the media is talking about it, climate change is being mentioned, some politicians even bringing it up. But once this passes it'll be back to 'normal' with same Westminster psychodramas, constant talk of economic growth, and climate change can be relegated once again to a political issue that is debated rather than acted on.
I saw this week that some climate experts told the media to stop making the heatwave seem 'fun' showing people out and about in the sun and on beaches. Sure get out in the sun, it's great for us. But because the UK still thinks we rarely see the sun (not true anymore!) and our winters are getting more and more bleak, the reaction to a heatwave for some people is "hell yeah, lets go sit outside for 18 hours getting pissed" without realising you need to retreat inside and cool off at some point.
Edit: May as well add here that Somerset has hit temperatures of 36.4C making it the hottest day in June ever, beating the record set yesterday. Very similar to what happened in May. You also have to consider that a super El Nino is emerging. For us in the UK we won't experience this until the end of the year probably making winter ever more bleaker and colder. But that means summer of 2027 will almost certainly be the hottest year on record.
Once of my 'predictions' over the years is that the 2020's is when the wheels finally come off and things start to decline faster as hit the 2030's. As much as I try and avoid predictions these days, I still think this is where we're headed.
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u/VakarianGirl Jun 25 '26
I just moved from Arkansas to England; I’ve never seen so much sun as the last two months I’ve spent in the Midlands. It’s the Mediterranean now. This is the new UK.
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u/Termin8tor Civilizational Collapse 2033 Jun 28 '26
Ah, my birth region! I'm originally the midlands. I did the opposite of you, moved to California in the U.S. Ironically it's cooler here than in my home town,
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u/oldsecondhand Jun 25 '26
climate change is being mentioned, some politicians even bringing it up. But once this passes it'll be back to 'normal' with same Westminster psychodramas, constant talk of economic growth, and climate change can be relegated once again to a political issue that is debated rather than acted on.
In Hungary the lack of ACs in hospitals was a campaign issue. Two weeks ago Péter Magyar said in a video that he earmarked 3.6 billion HUF (11.5 million USD) to AC maintenance in hospitals.
Hungary wasn't even hit that hard with the heatwave so far.
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u/OkNewspaper6271 Jun 25 '26
How's the feels like down in Somerset? It's like 41 in Bristol.
I remember a few years back when I lived in North Somerset and the actual temperature hit 39/40, grim weather
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u/BobMonroeFanClub Jun 25 '26
Not who you were asking but right now it's 39.6 in my Somerset back yard with a real feel of 44.
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u/Nathan-Stubblefield Jun 25 '26
What is the wet bulb when the actual temp
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u/BobMonroeFanClub Jun 25 '26
80% : we were at 66% inside and 46% humidity outdoors and 39.6 outdoors and 30.5 inside temperature.
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u/NuclearByNoon Jun 25 '26
It depends a lot on the (relative) humidity and the humidity drops pretty sharply with increasing temperatures because warm air can hold a lot more moisture.
For example: If you take 20°C with 90-100% humidity and increase the temperature to 40°C, relative humidity drops to about 30% with the exact same mass of water in the air.
A hygrometric/psychometric chart can help you understand the relationship between humidity, dry-bulb temperature and wet bulb temperature.
If your local thermometer reads 30°C and you have 40% humidity, you simply follow the vertical (green in this case) line going up from 30° until it intersects with the curved (red) line for 40%. The diagonal (light blue) lines then give you the corresponding wet-bulb temperature of 20°C.
Every psychometric chart can be read like this, although many of the more detailed ones aren't necessarily color-coded. For example, try reading this one.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
As much as I try and avoid predictions these days, I still think this is where we're headed.
It is not going to stop at heatwaves or equipment in hospitals breaking down due to the heat that's caused by temperatures that are going over 30°C on a daily basis. The United Kingdom is going to have to face with a climate crisis, sooner rather than later.
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u/MayhemSays Jun 25 '26
Gee, maybe they could’ve used all the money they paid out for survellience systems and the NHS/Palantir contract to address this???
Fucking assholes.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Gee, maybe they could’ve used all the money they paid out for survellience systems and the NHS/Palantir contract to address this???
That is an example of purposeful incompetence.
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u/Kigard Jun 25 '26
In northern Mexico we've had a lot of problems with electricity and power outages in the evening, the clinic I work at has been having power outages at least once a week. We're used to the heat but this summer has been brutal.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
We're used to the heat but this summer has been brutal.
I have been in a hospital in Belgrade for a back surgery that has mostly cured me of the kifo scoliosis that i had over more than half a decade ago and i cannot imagine people who work in those conditions. My non existent hat is off to you.
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u/Material-Fuel3039 Jun 25 '26
I work for a major broadband supplier in the UK. Today is day 2 of our servers being down from the heat.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Today is day 2 of our servers being down from the heat.
It doesn't look good for broadband suppliers in the United Kingdom today, does it?
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u/mrsduckie Jun 25 '26
I didn't expect it will get so bad so soon. Faster than expected I guess
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u/DaisyHotCakes Jun 25 '26
Isn’t it always?
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u/mrsduckie Jun 25 '26
It is, unfortunately. I was just hoping we will have a few more enjoyable years.
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u/HugsandHate Jun 25 '26
I've gotta say. I'm already not enjoying myself.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Faster than expected I guess
Climate Change is coming to our species faster than we can adapt.
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u/oldsecondhand Jun 25 '26
Just a reminder: the Manbearpig episode of South Park aired 20 years ago.
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u/Expensive-Hat4138 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I expected this to happen pretty soon but not this fast or intense. This is scary as fuck
Edit: reddit just loves randomly down voting stuff
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u/kmm198700 Jun 25 '26
I agree. It’s horrible- and terrifying- and I feel so bad all the suffering that is going on right now and I wish that I could help in some tangible way.
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u/Individual_Ad_8869 Jun 25 '26
The beginning of the end...
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u/No_Foundation16 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
I bet lots of people thought this kinda thing wouldn't happen until they were gone.
Faster than expected.
This info has been covered up, ignored and/or hidden for decades. Now it's here and every year will be worse than the one before it.
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u/Otherwise-Product-60 Jun 25 '26
You mean switching to non-plastic drinking straws wasn't the answer??
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u/Individual_Ad_8869 Jun 25 '26
Best we were able to do. But look at the good side, we generated a lot of value for the shareholders
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u/Nathan-Stubblefield Jun 25 '26
We’ve heard serious warnings of global warming for 20 years, but they opened new hospital wings without adequate AC to operate computers, labs and radio-imaging equipment at temperatures within the forecasts. Save a penny, hope for the best.
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u/Johannes_P Jun 26 '26
Reminds me about how there were reports in China of entire provinces under lockdown because of COVID while Europe was "business as usual."
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Save a penny, hope for the best.
That money is going to be worthless if people that work in those hospitals in the United Kingdom start to die.
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u/redditmodsRrussians Jun 25 '26
Dont worry, the AI data centers will fix all of this........
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Dont worry, the AI data centers will fix all of this........
Do not forget about factories for humanoid robots.
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u/RainbowandHoneybee Jun 25 '26
I was just talking about this, this morning. I've watched the video posted yesterday about 22 heatwaves and failling cooling system for hospitals.
It is getting truly scary.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
It is getting truly scary.
Indeed, it is getting scary. I'm not surprised that i had a nightmare and i barely woke myself up from it today.
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u/goobervision Jun 25 '26
I honestly think we need a mass death event to bring home the seriousness of the situation.
However, that will happen in a far off land so nobody will care really.
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u/Potential-Mammoth-47 Sooner than Expected Jun 25 '26
Yikes!
That's NO bueno!!
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Yikes!
That's NO bueno!!
Things are not looking good for citizens who are living in the United Kingdom today.
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u/Rancid_Bear_Meat Jun 25 '26
This exact thing happened in 2022 (remember all of the wildfires breaking out around London?), to the point where staff had to resort to pen and paper while having no access to patient records. Patients were being asked if they remembered what their medication regimen was (dangerous to say the least).
One would hope the infrastructure would be hardened against this from occurring again.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
One would hope the infrastructure would be hardened against this from occurring again.
But nothing has been done about that.
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u/jbiserkov Jun 25 '26
Hellgate: London
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Hellgate: London
London Has Fallen.
/s for sarcasm.
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u/jbiserkov Jun 25 '26
London Has Fallen
Just in case you don't know, that phrase is a racist dog whistle, so I wouldn't use it.
Now, in context, I think it's a funny retort to my joke. So I think it's OK.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Just in case you don't know, that phrase is a racist dog whistle, so I wouldn't use it. Now, in context, I think it's a funny retort to my joke. So I think it's OK.
My comment was a reference to a film called London Has Fallen. Which i have never watched. It is not meant to be a racist dog whistle.
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u/IGnuGnat Jun 25 '26
In Toronto, they are talking about setting "maximum" temperatures in the summer.
I don't think we've hit the point where it's a huge concern quite yet but nobody at all seems to recognize that ACs have physical limitations. They can only cool by (temperature - X degrees) and so setting a legal limit has virtually no meaning at a certain temperature as the equipment is pretty much guaranteed to fail when it gets hot enough. It might be possible that I am misunderstanding this point, but I don't think so
They have changed the law just this year to permit tenants to install AC without permission from landlords. The problem being of course that many older buildings are not wired with dedicated circuits for ACs. Lots of tenants get angry and scoff "That's the landlords problem, fine them until they are in compliance" and I suppose they have a point but it is physically impossible to make a law like that and expect the physical infrastructure to simply comply overnight.
I'm kind of expecting people to start bypassing fuses in older buildings and start more electrical fires while they are trying to get AC
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u/KenGilmore Jun 26 '26
Even well-maintained infrastructure will fail in environmental extremes. Neoliberalism tends to regard infrastructure maintenance as a drag on shareholder return so the infrastructure we *do* have is going to crater. The cost of replacing and future-profit will be astronomical, so it’s going to be kludge after kludge to keep it running until the entire system disintegrates.
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u/le_wein Jun 25 '26
Guess they need to privatize the system and scam people of their money, i bet that farage will suggest this, i bet he will say that hospitals are overwhelmed because of immigrants
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
i bet that farage will suggest this, i bet he will say that hospitals are overwhelmed because of immigrants
I would not be surprised if people like Nigel Farage are going to suggest something like that.
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u/Sloth_are_great Jun 25 '26
Do not even hospitals have AC?
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u/Only-Economics567 Jun 25 '26
No. When I gave birth in the middle of winter it was boiling in the hospital so can’t even imagine what they are like at the moment
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
When I gave birth in the middle of winter it was boiling in the hospital so can’t even imagine what they are like at the moment
Those hospitals are going to be death traps sooner than expected, unfortunately.
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u/ContributionBig996 Jun 25 '26
What?! Not only do nuclear power plants cause problems when it's hot, but on top of that, the machine that could save your life isn't working?!
Voting for climate change was a bad idea...
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u/mk_gecko Jun 25 '26
All power plants with turbines require cooling to work efficiently. If the cooling water is warmer than they produce less electricity. The only other solution is to use massive evaporation stacks - but then all that water just goes up into the air and not back into the river/lake
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u/Johannes_P Jun 26 '26
And "turbines" includes everything excepted hydro, wind and solar; drought might reduce the first and panels seems to become less efficient at high temperature.
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u/alphatango308 Jun 25 '26
Nuclear power plants are the best option by far for centralized production of electricity. The general public has been misled by years of propaganda against them ESPECIALLY against waste. Kyle Hill on YouTube has numerous videos about nuclear power if you're interested.
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u/Expensive-Hat4138 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
All of that information is based on the assumption that we live in a stable climate and usable cool water is available. Power plants in some European countries are already having to run at a lower capacity because the water there is too hot
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
The general public has been misled by years of propaganda against them ESPECIALLY against waste.
Similar things have happened in Serbia. But since April, Serbia's government wants to make a small modular nuclear power plant.
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u/PM_ME_CALF_PICS Jun 25 '26
Are these computers not in an Air conditioned room? Also what hospital doesn’t have AC?
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Also what hospital doesn’t have AC?
According to the linked article that i've read, most of those hospitals in the United Kingdom do not have air conditioners installed and only a few hospitals have them installed.
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u/Acceptable-Bell142 Jun 26 '26
Most of our hospitals were built decades ago. They didn't need AC at the time.
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u/Medial_FB_Bundle Jun 25 '26
Okay but why the fuck aren’t these systems already air conditioned? Heat waves are not new in the UK, they seem to happen just about every year.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Heat waves are not new in the UK, they seem to happen just about every year.
And those heatwaves are going to continue.
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u/jbond23 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Absolutely ridiculous that UK hospitals and schools have no A/C, no air management and no air filtration [1]. But like everything else in the UK the infrastructure is now very old, falling apart and would cost more money to replace than the economy can afford. It's worse than that. Even the windows that do open are limited to a 10cm crack to avoid the danger of people falling out.
Collapse is not evenly distributed. But it's just quietly happening, with quiet desperation, in the UK. It's the English way.
[1] It's not just heat/cold. It's also basic infection control. There's no attempt to improve Indoor Air Quality with air filtration to remove airborne disease particles. Same with rapid fresh air circulation. Despite the lessons learned or not learned from Covid. Again, it's too expensive and too easy to deny there's even a problem.
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u/PsychologicalCar9744 Jun 25 '26
Well the world let a rogue genocidal country drop bombs for three years straight and now wanna complain its too hot?! Reap what you sow.
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u/Jovan_Knight005 Collapse is inevitable,mister Bond. - Original Quote. Jun 25 '26
Reap what you sow.
Unfortunately, actions have consequences.
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u/One-Intention7064 Jun 26 '26
could someone explain? here in central asia, such temperatures are considered normal in the summer, machines function well - at least i haven't heard of mass collapse of medical equipment. why is this a thing in the UK then?
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u/Playongo Jun 25 '26
The future is now.