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Don't Eat The White Snow Either
loteck writes "An interesting article about an Australian ski resort that is converting human waste into freshly driven snow. The waste is converted "through a three-step purifying process of UV light filtration, ozonation and ultra-filtration", and they say it's "even cleaner than that made from nearby creek water." I think that says more about the creek than it does the waste."
I'll think you'll find that's due to the fact there IS NO WATER in the nearby creek. You can thank the Snowy Mountains Hydro project for that one.
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they got some REAL shitty skiing at that resort.
I think this completely validates the time I yell "oh shit!" when I fell skiing.
"Information wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, the same guy who said "Information wants to be free"
SHITBALL FIGHT!!!!!!! heh heh......doesn't have the same ring.....
As we would say in Australia right now, given the fires in the Snowy Mountains region...
"This is about as useless as pissing on a bushfire."
you may not want to, but they want to use this water to make the snow. I am sure that they are FAR less concerned w/the amount of water that they use to flush the toilets than the amount that the use to make snow.
;)
If they are going to go through this (no doubt) expensive cleansing process to put this water on the mountain, it must cost them a SHITLOAD to use fresh water to make the snow.
You can at least HOPE that your lift tickets, etc go down in price
Now I can legitimately roll in my own filth!
:p
All the way down the mountain!
Now to find the decent snow you REALLY have to go off-piste.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Actually, it'd probably work on a sliding scale, depending on how many burritos you ate the night before.
I got a sig so you would remember me.
I can't wait for this technology to become sufficiently miniaturized that you can have it fitted internally, and just excrete pure white snow directly. It would certainly make snowball fights more interesting.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
The resort has an amazing 7500 beds, which all adds up to a lot of visitors making a lot of human waste. Converting this into snow seemed a logical step.
Maybe I'm not as logical as I once thought.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
They already have "snow" and "powder", now they get the "good clean shit" too....
:)
No wonder australians are so relaxed
Before you know it we will be told not to eat the mints many resturaunts have in the bathroom :(
The Swiss have a word for this: Schussenfallenschitzensnarfen. I think there's an umlaut in there somewhere.
If they are going to go through this (no doubt) expensive cleansing process to put this water on the mountain, it must cost them a SHITLOAD to use fresh water to make the snow.
Actually the term is now "SNOWLOAD".
Citizens figured the water's been through so many kidneys, it *has* to be pure....
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
This wouldn't be Shit Creek, would it?
Well, now it seems they have piss poor skiing all season long.
"Make me some if you're making some"
Good time to mention the book "The Great Stink of London" (Amazon) which is about the development of the London sewer system.
The above was one of the problems - the futher down the Thames you got, the more crap (litterally) there was in the water. Though, since the Thames is a tidal river it went both ways.
An interesting read.
There's also a good chance that your tap water is a dinoasur's piss, a neaderthal's piss...hell, it might even be my piss. Your tap water has probably been more places than you want to think about.
> What happens when the filtration unit breaks down and starts spraying raw sewage onto the unhappy punters?
The shit hits the fan?
it was pretty clear that poor people were going to end up using rich people's (albeit clean) waste water. That just struck me as pretty screwed up.
I see you're not familiar with the theory of "trickle-down economics".