How Is The Government Handling The Power Crisis?

[ghost]

For 30 years now, Europe and to a lesser degree, the USA, has been encouraging energy efficiency as a way to use less power.
The US government subsidizes zero interest loans to improve energy efficiency, in terms of better windows and doors, insulation, more efficient heating and cooling systems, less water consumption, and so on.

The single LEAST efficient way to cool buildings in a city like Buenos Aires would be to make cheap knockoffs of korean air conditioners (noblex, anyone) and then tack literally millions of small, inefficient models all over every single building.
Central air, of course, is much cheaper in the long run, both to install and to run. But it requires consorcios agreeing, something that will never happen here.

Is it any wonder there are blackouts?

The exact same btu's of cooling could probably be done with 2/3 the electricity, if there was a rational building code, and central air, or at least fewer units and some national program to study efficiency of cooling.

Luckily, the good restaurants have generators.

Yes indeed. If you look at a satellite generated Heat Loss/IR etc photo of Buenos Aires and compare it to NY you will see the poster child of insulation inefficiency when viewing BA. It's so bad [summer or winter] that most of the heating and cooling energy is simply wasted into the atmosphere.

 

[Rich One]

Amazing that all the people protesting and blocking streets are over 50 ....! and mostly females. The young men don't care??

 

[dennisr]

Deleted.

 

[franksredhots]

Rich one, interesting point about Cuba. Of course I don't believe everything I read but I am amazed at China moving toward capitalism. They found out socialism (at least to the totalitarian degree) didn't work and that the western capitalism did, so they are moving back that way and it is paying off. When I say capitalism I don't mean corporatism and fascism (government by heads of corporations that have moved into government and are making the rules) An Argentina acquaintance attended some free classes here where the woes of the world were blamed on "capitalism" and everything should be run by the non self-serving government. I had a time explaining that capitalism is not what she thought. Someone said we need to see free market capitalism instead because of all the confusion now in redefining capitalism. Capitalism is when a man (or woman) saves up their capital and invests their capital in an enterprise and makes it become productive, perhaps eventually provides jobs and so on. It isn't what we see predominant in America today.

lol.

 

[franksredhots]

Amazing that all the people protesting and blocking streets are over 50 ....! and mostly females. The young men don't care??

maybe its because all the men are too busy working to pay their rent and dont have time to gnocchi around protesting?

 

[pauper]

caballito? pffft. serves you right.

Even in the blackout stakes Caballito can't compete with her scruffy neighbour Flores - this wannabe barrio has no shame.

 

[franksredhots]

Even in the blackout stakes Caballito can't compete with her scruffy neighbour Flores - this wannabe barrio has no shame.

indeed. serves them both right. filthy beggars.

 

[John.St]

Yes indeed. If you look at a satellite generated Heat Loss/IR etc photo of Buenos Aires and compare it to NY you will see the poster child of insulation inefficiency when viewing BA. It's so bad [summer or winter] that most of the heating and cooling energy is simply wasted into the atmosphere.

Good to see that the porteños care for the city's birds; street lights also reach fifth floor so the birds can sit up there and read the newspapers.