Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach 249
dataxtream writes "The world's first refrigerated beach is to be built at a luxury hotel in Dubai, located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. The beach will include heat-absorbing pipes under the sand along with large wind blowers, which will keep tourists cool and guard their feet against the hot sand. Half of me says these guys need a reality check, the other half wants to go there." I believe I've just thought of a way we could solve this whole global warming thing I've been hearing about.
Futurama (Score:1, Funny)
Documentary Narrator: Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063, we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean now and again.
Suzie: Just like daddy puts in his drink every morning. Then he gets mad.
Documentary Narrator: Of course, because the greenhouse gasses are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time, thus solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: But...
Documentary Narrator: Once and for all!
The laws of thermodynamics are still on the books (Score:5, Funny)
I believe I've just thought of a way we could solve this whole global warming thing I've been hearing about.
You mean, power the giant beach refrigerator by attaching a generator to the spinning corpse of old Sadi Carnot [wikipedia.org]?
No thanks... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No thanks... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, but if Dubai keeps building cool shit like this, it won't be long until we get a new Dubai-themed Vegas hotel with miniature versions of everything they dream up in the actual Dubai. I'm sure making people feel like oil sheiks would also work as a "math-challenged people come give us your money" theme as well.
So this is less an advertisement for you than it is a preview of what you can expect to see in the places you're more interested in.
Re:Has this solution been considered? (Score:4, Funny)
No engineer would ever think of that - the water is miles away!
Re:beach erosion/movement (Score:5, Funny)
"all beaches are not like Daytona."
I've been to Daytona, and all I can say to that is: Thank Fucking God.
Awesome (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody needed to deflect attention from America's excesses and take the spotlight for needless waste and overspending. Go Dubai!