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Bejing's 17 urban ski facilities are a drain on the city's water supply, according to a new NGO report. To make artificial snow, these slopes are using at least 1 million tons of water every year. This is the equivalent of 8,300 households, say Friends of Nature researchers in their 2011 Annual Report on Environment Development of China.
...Last winter was the driest in more than 6 decades, while visitor numbers to the capital during Spring Festival rose more than 50 percent in 2010, with many hitting the slopes.
The skiing industry also uses huge amounts of electricity, with almost 500 kW hours of electricity per day needed to power just one snowmaker.
See: http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2011-04/20/content_22399471.htm
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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22 Million people live in Bejing. 8300 households would be about a sixth of one percent, so not sure how much of an impact that really is.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Yeah, but there's 3,000 residents living in each of those houses....
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1 million tons , sounds loads, but equates to 120 meters cubed per household, I am on a meter and use about double that.
And it is for a good cause. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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surely does it not melt and rejoin the ground water come spring
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Do they have 17 indoor snow slopes? that sounds impressive for one city.
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I think they're talking about outdoor, not indoor slopes.
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If these are in fact outdoor slopes then the electricity consumption stated is very high. A snowmaker on an outdoor slope would only be run for a few hours each nifght/day when the ambient temperture is low enough to make 'snow' and is basically only a pump to shove cold water through nozzles. 500kWhr divided by say 5 hours use = 100kW pump. That's huge.
And the melt water can be collected and treated as any other 'grey' water. It's not lost.
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