Soheil Abedian, founder and president of Palazzo Versace, said he believed it is possible to design a refrigerated beach and make it sustainable. "We will suck the heat out of the sand to keep it cool enough to lie on," he said. "This is the kind of luxury that top people want."
now what would be ingenius would be if they figgered out a way to utilize that energy sucked from the sand to reduce the UAEs 60% energy footprint for air conditioning and contributed that learning to the world at large. Dubai is sort of a biblical tale in waiting tho isnt it? Its tucked into a region of the world where intolerances of all sorts are rampant and it caters to western facing "top people." id say its soon to be, if its not already, in the top ten hit list for some lets go back to the middle ages whack job group.The first Palazzo Versace is already operating on Australia's Gold Coast - where Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey, the actors, have stayed - and the Dubai hotel will be the second when it opens late next year or early 2010. The 10-storey hotel will have 213 rooms, several with their own internal swimming pools, plus 169 apartments. Fifteen more such hotels are planned.
as david hannum once remarked theres a sucker born every minute. and no shortage of people looking to separate those suckers from their dollars. if people need a 7 star hotel to make them feel special and privileged..oh well, never mind..im putting my proletarian spin on things here lol.
Aided by cheap oil and gas, Middle Eastern nations have poured enormous resources into controlling temperature. About 60% of Dubai's huge power bill is for air-conditioning; each person living there has a carbon footprint of more than 44 tons of CO2 a year.