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Barcelona to Build First Carbon-Neutral Indoor Ski Slope

Jan 19, 2012
, Got together with B01 Arquitectes in Barcelona in broken-down to make sure that this indoor ski resort has a smaller ecological footprint than its precedents. A 39,000 m2 dome should lineage a ski hill as well as an ice skating ring. All this in the name of sustainable redevelopment of a currently disused industrial area into a residential neighborhood, and its Snow Creation, south of the city. According to the Guardian this month, both the housing area as well as the snow dome “will be served by three plants generating heating and air-conditioning streams, fueled by methanisation, solar power and implant waste from the city, primarily from Collserola, the world's largest metropolitan park. For the industrial cooling side, fascinating temperatures down to -10º C, the designers plan to use the regasification facilities at Barcelona's liquid natural gas terminal.”

As Erik Trinidad explains on Ascertaining Channel , "Liquefied Natural Gas is shipped to Barcelona’s ports, and when seawater is used to warm it up from subzero temperatures in peace to return it a gaseous state, the by-product is cool energy — which can then be harnessed and used as a refrigerant for structure air-conditioning — and making snow if all goes well with approvals.” That way, the cool energy is prevented codify going into the sea and upsetting sea life, and recycled into something (a little bit more) useful. If all goes as planned, Barcelona's Snow World will be the first to be carbon-unbiased.

Source: Treehugger

Barcelona won´t bow to big-spending Real

Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola has warned big-spending Real Madrid that his side won’t give up their reign as European and Spanish champions without a fight. After playing second fiddle to Barcelona last season, Real have spent over 180 million pounds to sign stars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Karim Benzema during the close-season. The Bernabeu club’s spree [...]

Source: SoccerNews.com

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