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[lazyboy97o]

Your fan is the forward motion of the gondola. There is various ways to make vents that help pull air through the gondola.

Personally, I would rather have these in an open-air style then heat wouldn't be an issue. Cold during the winter might be though. Ski resorts have them enclosed for obvious reasons but they don't have to be. For those who don't ski a gondola is the top of the line lift for speed and comfort. The bottom of the line is the tow rope. In between are your chairs which are basically benches that move you fairly slowly up the hill open to the elements.

Heat isn’t an issue if you use the right type of glazing.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Still with a high outdoor temperature along with the actual passengers giving off heat in the cabin glazing alone won't do it. It would help and I'm sure is part of the gondolas. 6-8 people in a small room will heat it up to body temperature over time if no new air is introduced. With an outside air temp of 95 degrees (example), you need airflow through the cabin to have any cooling effect. Basically, you are trying to get evaporation to cool down the passengers.

This has been covered. They’re not sealed boxes.

 

[LieutLaww]

Don't be silly you know it is going to be the end scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark as soon as you go into the Gondola and into the sun, everyone will melt or their heads will explode, or be BBQ (Flame Tree Chefs will be waiting by the Gondolas to remove the latest batch of fresh BBQ).

 

[Movielover]

Still with a high outdoor temperature along with the actual passengers giving off heat in the cabin glazing alone won't do it. It would help and I'm sure is part of the gondolas. 6-8 people in a small room will heat it up to body temperature over time if no new air is introduced. With an outside air temp of 95 degrees (example), you need airflow through the cabin to have any cooling effect. Basically, you are trying to get evaporation to cool down the passengers.

 

[Bender123]

This has been covered. They’re not sealed boxes.

..and the math checks out. At 11 MPH, unless there is a system shutdown, the longest any of these will be on the line is seven minutes, based on the speed and length of the legs. The longest will be the CBR to Epcot run, with about a 4 and a 3 minute section (counting the turn station as the dividing point.

Even if it was a sealed box, nobody is going to die of heat stroke in seven minutes.

 

[LieutLaww]

Don't you go bringing logic and common sense in here when people want to be outraged about being cooked in the new Disney Cooking Box of Dooooom

 

[Bender123]

Don't you go bringing logic and common sense in here when people want to be outraged about being cooked in the new Disney Cooking Box of Dooooom

Don't worry, you wont bake in them...you will fall off the line into the gator pits before that happens.

 

[mmascari]

This has been covered. They’re not sealed boxes.

I heard they were hermetically sealed.

Hope that your fellow passengers conserve oxygen for the trip.

 

[ryguy]

Could this open in staggered stages, based on completion of certain sections?

 

[marni1971]

People in the US have trouble realizing the rest of the world works in the metric system?

Not all of us do !

 

[OG Runner]

Besides that who doesn't enjoy a ride they can say they "survived". I see marketing potential already,
with the t-shirts, "I survived the Gondola to Epcot".

 

[rle4lunch]

Not all of us do !

In my trips to the UK I've always found the mixture of measuring sytems you guys use a little confusing. lol. Making me do the 1x3.3 math all the time.

 

[OG Runner]

I heard they were hermetically sealed.

Hope that your fellow passengers conserve oxygen for the trip.

The Dutch Oven of Doom!!!!

 

[geekza]

To be fair to Jim Hill, he and Len Testa had originally said that, when they heard that the gondolas wouldn't have air conditioning, they thought it was crazy. Hill reached out to someone at Disney who pulled up the spec sheets and misread things. He then said on his podcast that they were, indeed, going to have air conditioning. So many people came back to him disputing it that he got hold of the spec sheet and saw that the "ac" was lowercase and didn't mean the same thing as "A/C." He owned up to his mistake. In the grand scheme of things, I think we need to cut him some slack on this one. I think most people would see "ac" and assume it meant air-conditioning unless you were someone familiar with how spec sheets for that type of thing read. Yes, he tends to spout out info when it may not be a done deal in the name of "being first," but I think he has a valid excuse on this one.

 

[marni1971]

In my trips to the UK I've always found the mixture of measuring sytems you guys use a little confusing. lol. Making me do the 1x3.3 math all the time.

We do. Its crazy isn’t it?

 

[larryz]

The Dutch Oven of Doom!!!!

But these ovens are Swiss...

 

[NormC]

Could this open in staggered stages, based on completion of certain sections?

No

 

[joelkfla]

Could this open in staggered stages, based on completion of certain sections?

Guests getting off will be staggering from the extreme heat.

 

[MisterPenguin]

Still with a high outdoor temperature along with the actual passengers giving off heat in the cabin glazing alone won't do it. It would help and I'm sure is part of the gondolas. 6-8 people in a small room will heat it up to body temperature over time if no new air is introduced. With an outside air temp of 95 degrees (example), you need airflow through the cabin to have any cooling effect. Basically, you are trying to get evaporation to cool down the passengers.

Even if the gondola comes to a standstill such that the 11 mph breeze stops you still have a vent at the top and the bottom. Any heat in the gondola that is warmer than the outside air will become less dense and rise and leave by way of the top vent allowing the cooler air to come in below. Air that is more humid is also less dense and will increase "the chimney effect."

The glazed anti-infrared coating is like being in the shade.

You will be hotter walking in the sun, which happens *a lot* at WDW, than in a still gondola.

 

[Horizons '83]

Even if the gondola comes to a standstill such that the 11 mph breeze stops you still have a vent at the top and the bottom. Any heat in the gondola that is warmer than the outside air will become less dense and rise and leave by way of the top vent allowing the cooler air to come in below. Air that is more humid is also less dense and will increase "the chimney effect."

The glazed anti-infrared coating is like being in the shade.

You will be hotter walking in the sun, which happens *a lot* at WDW, than in a still gondola.

I would love it if this post would be end of the A/C heat conversation. This is perfectly stated and no further conversation is needed on that topic.