Drawing a line in the sand - a Refrigerated Beach in Dubai
Talk about excessive consumption -- from the
London Times:
Chill out, you beautiful people, the Versace beach is refrigerated
Versace, the renowned fashion house, is to create the world�s first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days.
The beach will be next to the the new Palazzo Versace hotel which is being built in Dubai where summer temperatures average 40C and can reach 50C.
The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface.
The swimming pool will be refrigerated and there are also proposals to install giant blowers to waft a gentle breeze over the beach.
This is obscene. You can say that you are only moving the heat from one spot to another but the Carnot Cycle is not efficient and a lot of waste heat will be generated not to mention the power requirements for such a fiasco.
Chilling the sand isn't going to help these poor idiots when they get sunburned. Solar Flux is going to roast them alive and they (like the proverbial lobster) will not feel the effects as they have been kept artificially cool. Wonder what the lawsuits will be like...
Posted by DaveH at December 14, 2008 7:38 PM