Refrigerated Beach?

Posted by Miss Cellania in Travel & Places on December 17, 2008 at 12:19 am


The new Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai wants to provide every luxury to its guests. The latest planned innovation is a refrigerated beach!

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.

Versace’s plans have shocked environmentalists. Rachel Noble, the campaigns officer at Tourism Concern, which promotes sustainable tourism, said that the carbon generated by such projects would contribute to climate change, whose worst effects would be felt by the poor.

“Dubai is like a bubble world where the things that are worrying the rest of the world, like climate change, are simply ignored so that people can continue their destructive lifestyles,” she said.

The hotel should open in late 2009 or early 2010. Link -Thanks, Chris Tackett!


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17 comments to "Refrigerated Beach?"

  1. mikos
    December 17th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    Burn baby burn!!!

  2. Skully
    December 17th, 2008 at 1:21 am

    Paid for by us buying fuel.

  3. Evil Pundit
    December 17th, 2008 at 2:29 am

    Obviously, the best way to power this without adding to carbon emissions would be to use nuclear energy.

  4. violet
    December 17th, 2008 at 2:47 am

    I prefer caviar-powered testicle cooling systems for the men and platinum reflector bonnets with built-in imported Icelandic breeze generators for the ladies.

  5. mikos
    December 17th, 2008 at 6:03 am

    I agree Evil Pundit... A few rockets full of nuclear energy would solve everything!

  6. darlzwik
    December 17th, 2008 at 7:03 am

    A few semi literate religious zealots with strap on bombs, or car bombs would be a lot cheaper.

  7. Scotchdrnkr
    December 17th, 2008 at 7:37 am

    If they build this right their will be no carbon foot print. It's called geothermal energy. They use the heat from absorbed by the pipes under the sand to create the energy to power the fans.
    As far as us paying for it thru the buying of oil. Thats quite true but you can't blame them for our major use of oil. We are supposed to be so technologically advanced but yet we continue to rely on OIL to power our world. Instead of some other form of power.

  8. matt
    December 17th, 2008 at 11:17 am

    They should ship in arctic ice for their drinks, for the ultimate in luxury.

  9. Rocky Rook
    December 17th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Wow. That is taking it to the max.

  10. doucheee
    December 17th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    maybe climate change is a natural process of the earth, there is no direct evidence linking carbon emissions to climate change.

  11. Tom
    December 17th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    Why don't they just pipe the cool seawater through a system of heat exchangers under the sand? Seems like that would be a lot easier (not to mention cheaper) than actually using refrigeration.

  12. PseudoPoet
    December 17th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Who wants to hang out on a cold beach?

  13. Zindadil
    December 18th, 2008 at 9:09 am

    I agree
    who wants to god for a cool breeze on a beach. Cool breeze must be by a lake.
    Ask them to create a lake.

  14. dutchboy
    December 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    I am smart,successfull and care about the enviroment but I DO NOT believe in man made global warming/climate change.

  15. mikos
    December 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    Personally, I don't think global warming should even be considered as the main issue here. Boisterous, garish and excessive waste of natural resources is the truly disgusting part. It is equivalent to lighting cigars with $100 bills just because you can, while people around don't have enough money to buy their daily bread. To me its just an indicator of baseness and incivility.

  16. Christophe
    December 18th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    @violet : no bonnets for the ladies. It's Dubai : women are inside, not at the beach.

  17. liphttam1
    December 19th, 2008 at 6:31 am

    What if somone dug to far and hit the pipes. That pipe broke and then all the piped blew up! Much cooler then the firworks there.


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