“Scorching summer temperatures have pushed extreme heat to the front of the nation’s collective consciousness. There’s just one problem: It’s hard to get politicians to care about it.”
www.politico.com/news/2023/08...
What I wonder is at what constant temperature do roads, bridges, the materials that hold up buildings, when do they fail? Like if your roads are being torn up because they're melting and wheels are carving into them, what do you do? If bridges start to sag? If crews can only repair at night?
i dunno numbers but there have been increasing issues with rails/overhead wires getting so hot that trains have to slow down significantly because everything's getting all bendy
Every system from biological to industrial has an ideal operating temperature with more or less wiggle room but limits at the top and bottom of any given spectrum.
When they're exceeded failure is inevitable, then what?
A manhole repair just about 50 feet from my front door literally melted just hours after it was poured and set early one morning last August. They realized it was going to simply be too hot for it to take for several weeks, so they just put up a barrier and waited til early October to finish it.
