Comments on: Is Gianni Versace’s Refrigerated Beach One Excess Too Far in Dubai? https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:58:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Will Dubai Beat Everyone to Jetson World? - CAFE Foundation Blog https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1105623 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 04:10:26 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1105623 […] is a fabulously rich country, with an air conditioned beach, the world’s largest shopping mall and an indoor ski center complete with a good base and a […]

]]> By: Will Dubai Beat Everyone to Jetson World? - Sustainable Skies https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1105622 Fri, 17 Feb 2017 03:32:55 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1105622 […] is a fabulously rich country, with an air conditioned beach and the world’s largest shopping mall and an indoor ski center complete with a good base and a […]

]]> By: Ocean Parts Sculptures Are A Strange Gift of the Sea | Green Prophet https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-21214 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:39:43 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-21214 […] it is a common pastime to go down to the beach for some natural air conditioning (as opposed to unnaturally air conditioned beaches), but the result is all too often that a lot of waste is left on the beaches.  The most ubiquitous […]

]]> By: Empower to Cool Dubai With Recycled Sewage | Green Prophet https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-16675 Tue, 03 May 2011 00:24:48 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-16675 […] Wild and crazy Dubai is hardly known for sensible conservation of scarce resources, but CEO Ahmad Bin Shafir could change all that with a radical new approach to keeping cities cool. His rapidly growing company Empower cools Dubai’s most efficient new buildings with district cooling. Far more efficient than air conditioning, district cooling uses water that has been cooled once in a central plant and then distributed through a network of piping systems to individual customer buildings. It achieves economies of scale because it uses centralized plants instead of duplicating the energy used with individual cooling units in each building. […]

]]> By: Cigarette Cones, So You Don’t Butt Out on the Beach | Green Prophet https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1734 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:37:52 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1734 […] The Middle East has a serious problem with getting its people to clean up trash, and separate recyclables from garbage. Hopefully, small efforts will point the way. At least Tel Aviv’s not attempting to refrigerate its beach in the summer like Dubai. […]

]]> By: Green Prophet’s Top 10 Middle East Environment News Stories of 2009 | Green Prophet https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1733 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:24:06 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1733 […] Dubious Dubai reports that it will constructing a refrigerated beach. Is this one excess too much? Readers think […]

]]> By: James Klich Jr https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1731 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:22:19 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1731 Yes, It is a good idea.

]]> By: Justin https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1732 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:19:25 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1732 no – i recognised it from my stay on the gold coast every summer growing up in australia..

i have been to the PV once on the gold coast and was thrown out immediately!

]]> By: Daniel Pedersen https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1726 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:46:08 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1726 Justin, – thanks. I’ll correct it with a photo of the Dubai location. Did you recognize it from your stay at the Gold Coast PV?

]]> By: Justin https://www.greenprophet.com/2009/01/dubai-refrigerated-beach/#comment-1730 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:03:58 +0000 http://greenprophet.com/?p=5749#comment-1730 great article – small correction:

Yes that is a photo of the Palazzo Versace, but not the one in Dubai. The photo posted here is the Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

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