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</td></tr> </tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> A new luxury hotel in Dubai plans to offer the world's first refrigerated beach, lowering the risk that its high-paying guests might hurt their feet on the sand.
The beach is part of the Palazzo Versace hotel, and will include a system of heat-absorbing pipes under the sand. And if the sea breeze is not enough to tame the area's typical 40-to-50 degree [Celsius] heat, giant wind blowers will keep things cool.
The Dubai hotel is planned to open either late next year or early 2010. It also will feature a cooled swimming pool.
Environmentalists are infuriated by the plans, saying the hotel will greatly increase the levels of greenhouse gas emissions. But the Palazzo Versace president, Soheil Abedian, said the hotel will be sustainable (have a negligible impact on the environment).
Analysts estimate that each person living in Dubai has a carbon footprint (impact of human activities on the environment) of more than 44 tons of carbon dioxide a year -- more than four times what the average American produces. Many environmentalists urge people to try to limit their carbon footprint, which they believe contributes to global warming.
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http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081217/2/1bbo3.html
杜拜建空調沙灘 腳丫不怕燙
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</label> 更新日期:<q>2008/12/17 07:30</q> 編譯陳世欽／綜合倫敦十六日電
杜拜新建的凡賽斯飯店（Palazzo Versace hotel）旁將興建全世界首見的空調沙灘，以免前往度假的富豪必須忍受炙熱沙灘燙傷腳底的折磨。
英國每日郵報報導，這座革命性的空調沙灘緊鄰凡賽斯飯店，沙底裝配吸熱管和巨大風箱，使觀光客即使置身攝氏40到50度的高溫環境中，仍覺得涼爽舒適。
飯店預定明年底或後年初啟用，以電腦連線的自動調溫器控制溫度，還附設一座涼爽的游泳池。環保人士認為，這項計畫可能對氣候變化產生難以預料的衝擊。公益團體「旅遊關懷」（Tourism Concern）的蕾秋‧諾伯表示：「杜拜有如一個泡沫世界。當地政府罔顧舉世關切的嚴肅課題，以致部分人士得以繼續過破壞環境的生活方式。」
全球第一家7星級飯店阿拉伯塔酒店位於杜拜。杜拜政府希望透過它與10層樓高的凡賽斯飯店提升杜拜的區域觀光競爭力。
不過另一方面，大興土木將大幅增加杜拜的碳足跡。
據估計，杜拜國民人均二氧化碳製造量每年44噸以上。但凡賽斯飯店強調，海灘仍可維持環境永續發展。第一家凡賽斯飯店建於澳洲黃金海岸，未來準備再建15家。
Dubai to Boast World's First Refrigerated Beach <!--!--titleend-->
The beach is part of the Palazzo Versace hotel, and will include a system of heat-absorbing pipes under the sand. And if the sea breeze is not enough to tame the area's typical 40-to-50 degree [Celsius] heat, giant wind blowers will keep things cool.
The Dubai hotel is planned to open either late next year or early 2010. It also will feature a cooled swimming pool.
Environmentalists are infuriated by the plans, saying the hotel will greatly increase the levels of greenhouse gas emissions. But the Palazzo Versace president, Soheil Abedian, said the hotel will be sustainable (have a negligible impact on the environment).
Analysts estimate that each person living in Dubai has a carbon footprint (impact of human activities on the environment) of more than 44 tons of carbon dioxide a year -- more than four times what the average American produces. Many environmentalists urge people to try to limit their carbon footprint, which they believe contributes to global warming.
VOA News
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081217/2/1bbo3.html
杜拜建空調沙灘 腳丫不怕燙
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</label> 更新日期:<q>2008/12/17 07:30</q> 編譯陳世欽／綜合倫敦十六日電 杜拜新建的凡賽斯飯店（Palazzo Versace hotel）旁將興建全世界首見的空調沙灘，以免前往度假的富豪必須忍受炙熱沙灘燙傷腳底的折磨。
英國每日郵報報導，這座革命性的空調沙灘緊鄰凡賽斯飯店，沙底裝配吸熱管和巨大風箱，使觀光客即使置身攝氏40到50度的高溫環境中，仍覺得涼爽舒適。
飯店預定明年底或後年初啟用，以電腦連線的自動調溫器控制溫度，還附設一座涼爽的游泳池。環保人士認為，這項計畫可能對氣候變化產生難以預料的衝擊。公益團體「旅遊關懷」（Tourism Concern）的蕾秋‧諾伯表示：「杜拜有如一個泡沫世界。當地政府罔顧舉世關切的嚴肅課題，以致部分人士得以繼續過破壞環境的生活方式。」
全球第一家7星級飯店阿拉伯塔酒店位於杜拜。杜拜政府希望透過它與10層樓高的凡賽斯飯店提升杜拜的區域觀光競爭力。
不過另一方面，大興土木將大幅增加杜拜的碳足跡。
據估計，杜拜國民人均二氧化碳製造量每年44噸以上。但凡賽斯飯店強調，海灘仍可維持環境永續發展。第一家凡賽斯飯店建於澳洲黃金海岸，未來準備再建15家。
