Monday, January 10, 2011

engineers who are idiots

during my time in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, I regularly lived in buildings with steam heat. Slovakia is not Switzerland or Germany, though Bratislava is the most prosperous city in Slovakia....

Yet, in El Paso, Texas, a peculiar form of heating system exists, flawed in enough ways to qualify as STUPID ENGINEERING...

to wit:

the hot air blows from the top of the room

it blows onto you through vents that,dare I say it, can't really be properly cleaned....

before you get hot air, you first get a lot of cold air blowing right onto you...

This is unbelievably stupid. Is it cheaper? (for the manufacturer--it increases profits?)

Why do people put up with this crap?

Is it a question of inferior technology being foisted off on people who don't know better?

It it a question of inferior technology being foisted off on a complaisant population?

Is it part of a local tendency toward denial (about bad weather, rain, wind, cold weather?)--cliches: in El Paso, the sun always shines--->suggesting: the weather is always good. (What crap! Sun shining, wind blowing--that's a bad, unpleasant combination if you're outside for more than five minutes.....)


Whatever the explanation, this style of winter heating is bullshit, as are so many things in this ugly place...

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