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With heatwaves becoming more common, it would be nice for them to fit aircon to the gondolas. I seem to remember @Islander talking about ultra capacitors a few years ago, which work in London on their cable cars.

Although, I wonder how the Emirates cable car deals with issues, even with the aircon. Because those capacitors have a finite power, once it goes, the aircon stops until a recharge. So if the system did have a major fault or lockup where it could not be restarted for a long time, you would have people stuck high above the Thames in scorching heat on hot days. I wonder what their backup plan is to deal with such a situation, as the height difficulties are similar to Alton Towers. They must have a backup plan incase the cable stops and cannot be restarted, it would also be a ticking time bomb on a hot day and just as difficult to evacuate due to the height.
 
DistortAMG said:
With heatwaves becoming more common, it would be nice for them to fit aircon to the gondolas. I seem to remember @Islander talking about ultra capacitors a few years ago, which work in London on their cable cars.

Although, I wonder how the Emirates cable car deals with issues, even with the aircon. Because those capacitors have a finite power, once it goes, the aircon stops until a recharge. So if the system did have a major fault or lockup where it could not be restarted for a long time, you would have people stuck high above the Thames in scorching heat on hot days. I wonder what their backup plan is to deal with such a situation, as the height difficulties are similar to Alton Towers. They must have a backup plan incase the cable stops and cannot be restarted, it would also be a ticking time bomb on a hot day and just as difficult to evacuate due to the height.
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I don't think there is much chance, as there would be a lot of modification required to the cars or new cars (Emirates uses a different car design) it would also require extensive modifications to the station and connections of the cars to add the electrical connection.

even if added it wouldn't do much, as the capacitors / batteries would probably die within like 10/20 mins, not enough if you were stuck over the valley for a rescue

after looking at the Emirates cable car, it appears as though they have stickers over some of the window, and in some images it kind of looks like they have that heat reflecting tint applied to the other windows, I would think this could be the best solution, by limiting the amount of heat entering the cabin.
 
flyingguitar said:
I don't think there is much chance, as there would be a lot of modification required to the cars or new cars (Emirates uses a different car design) it would also require extensive modifications to the station and connections of the cars to add the electrical connection.

even if added it wouldn't do much, as the capacitors / batteries would probably die within like 10/20 mins, not enough if you were stuck over the valley for a rescue

after looking at the Emirates cable car, it appears as though they have stickers over some of the window, and in some images it kind of looks like they have that heat reflecting tint applied to the other windows, I would think this could be the best solution, by limiting the amount of heat entering the cabin.
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Oh yeah there is absolutely no chance of it happening. It would however be nice.

They should apply some heat reflecting tint though, relatively cheap, but also makes the gondolas more bearable on days when it is operating near the limit.
 
flyingguitar said:
after looking at the Emirates cable car, it appears as though they have stickers over some of the window, and in some images it kind of looks like they have that heat reflecting tint applied to the other windows, I would think this could be the best solution, by limiting the amount of heat entering the cabin.
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I think we all know the logical solution...

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