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Currently finishing up a power station in the Pilbara, it’s hot as shit! The Pilbara is in North Western Australia in the desert.

Running at 50 degrees inside the engine house, that’s with ventilation running.

Everything we touch is over 50 degrees, some things far more….

This is a temperature gauge sat in airflow coming in from outside….



A black storage box next to the cabins we are in….



The tarmac road going around the station….



The rocker cover of the engine we are on, it was stopped and drained last Wednesday….



I’ve worked outside in Dubai in the summer, Mozambique, east and west Africa and Asia but this place is brutal. If I collapsed with heat exhaustion I would be legitimately edible in about 2 hours.

12 litres of water a day, electrolytes, too old for this

Dave!

No. Thank. You.

Seems like a bit of an exaggeration if im honest. That big gauge at the top looks very much like 49 degrees' not 50

V8Granite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:38 am

Looks just like my conservatory in the summer months.

Easy to keep your cup of coffee warm!

You just find an ac unit and hug it every so often.

Dave!

You could actually cook meat in that temperature. Though I bet a slow-cooked joint of lamb shoulder is the last thing you feel like.

Think of how good you'll taste Dave - all that marbling, slowly rendering out...

Mmmmmm... Moist...

Holy hell how can you even work in that?

Gavster wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:00 pm Holy hell how can you even work in that?

Work for 1.5 hours, 30 minute rest, repeat till the 12 hour day is done.

You think you’ll get used to it but you just don’t.

People did this 100 years ago with no electrolytes, ice machines or AC, I’d say as a group us humans are quite fannyish now!!!

Dave!

Toasty!

People are also adapted to their local climate, that's why sherpas can carry stuff up Everest like a walk in the park while highly motivated CEOs are dying around them. It's not because the CEOs are fannys, it's because the sherpas are physiologically adapted to operate at high altitudes with zero altitude sickness.

V8Granite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:11 pm
People did this 100 years ago with no electrolytes, ice machines or AC,

Yeah - we called them Prisoners

V8Granite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:38 am

If it gets much past 50° you're screwed.

nuttinnew wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:22 pm If it gets much past 50° you're screwed.

When it goes over 50, the bomb is armed.
When it goes back under 50...

dinny_g wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:18 pm

V8Granite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:11 pm
People did this 100 years ago with no electrolytes, ice machines or AC,

Yeah - we called them Prisoners

Pretty much this