World's first refrigerated beach!

[thewiseguy]

The world's first refrigerated beach is to be built at a luxury hotel in Dubai so the filthy rich holidaymakers don't burn their feet on the scalding hot sand.

The revolutionary beach will sit next to the new Palazzo Versace hotel and will include a system of heat-absorbing pipes built under the sand and giant wind blowers, designed to keep tourists cool in the searing 40-50C heat.

The hotel, which is due to open late next year or early 2010, will be controlled by thermostats linked up to computers and feature a cooled swimming pool.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1094797/Worlds-refrigerated-BEACH-built-luxury-hotel-Dubai.html

WTF? :shrug:

[Richard D]

1. This is a perfect example . . .

. . . of everything that is wrong with this "civilization".

[LisaM]

2. This whole Dubai thing is INSANE

How can this be the least bit environmentally sound?

[gravity]

3. Geothermal?

They better not be putting a giant AC under the sand

[Xithras]

5. Probably a heat pump.

The article doesn't say how they do it, but the simplest way to accomplish that would be to toss a grid under the sand, a heatsink offshore some distance, and pump water between the two to transfer the heat from the sand into the ocean.

The actual environmental impact from a heat pump setup wouldn't be all that great...just one industrial pump pushing water around.

[billybob537]

7. wow you sound like a pipefitter.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. It isn't.

But it's not as if we've got any leverage when it comes to accusing others of being environmentally unsound, is it?

[CrispyQ]

6. Two of my previous bosses lived in houses that had heated driveways.

This story doesn't surprise me at all. :eyes: :crazy:

[whistler162]

8. Oh I don't know ....

you never met my ex.

Now that is one cold b**ch!;)