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Originally Posted by Carn
How is it a waste of resources?
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FWIF: I'm not taking a side on if it is, or is not, a waste of resources.
I think it's fairly obvious that creating a snow filled environment in the middle of a desert region is going to use a lot of water and energy. Surely, I don't want to pay thier electricity bill.
As a note on if it's to be considered extraordinarily wasteful:
We (TFP members) could go back and forth on that for a whole thread, and not decide for sure.
The numerous theme parks in the US (Disney, Six Flags) are also large (very large) amusements that consume resources. No one needs them to survive, and it could be argued they're a huge waste of resources.
It wouldn't be hard to name off a hundred large scale projects that would fit into someone's idea of "a waste of resources" for the same reasons this one snow hill could. If I remember correctly, there's at least one structure of this artificial snow hill-nature in Great Britain also. I think they spray down some sort of artifical turf with frozen water to maintain a "snow" covered hill effect.
The only person that could be considered logical, while condemming this snow filled building in the desert, would be the person who condemns all large scale amusement structures.