Eric
Posts : 9738 Join date : 2012-07-30 Age : 73 Location : Pensacola
| Subject: Just don't eat the yellow snow... Tue Jan 15, 2013 5:09 pm | |
| Like the Frank Zappa song says, just don't eat the yellow snow. Fake Snow Made From Sewage Comes Out YellowAn Arizona ski resort was the first to make snow from sewage "effluent," but the color was just a little off. Oops! - Quote :
- There's been a longstanding battle in northern Arizona over the use of faux-snow engineered from sewage "effluent," or runoff. On one side: a ski resort that wanted to use the fake snow. On the other: opponents who worried about the snow's potential health and ecological hazards. The ski resort triumphed and recently covered its grounds in the sewage-y snow, but there was one little problem: the stuff came out yellow.
Snow "guns" were used to cannon the discolored snow out onto the trails, where some people noticed the fake snow was a little, um, unconvincing. The resort's manager told the New York Times that the color was caused by "rusty residue in the new snow-making equipment" that's piping the snow in from a nearby sewage treatment plant. The government's environmental officials haven't confirmed or denied that. | |
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Newshound
Posts : 41 Join date : 2013-02-16
| Subject: Re: Just don't eat the yellow snow... Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:22 am | |
| - Eric wrote:
- Like the Frank Zappa song says, just don't eat the yellow snow.
Fake Snow Made From Sewage Comes Out Yellow An Arizona ski resort was the first to make snow from sewage "effluent," but the color was just a little off. Oops!
- Quote :
- There's been a longstanding battle in northern Arizona over the use of faux-snow engineered from sewage "effluent," or runoff. On one side: a ski resort that wanted to use the fake snow. On the other: opponents who worried about the snow's potential health and ecological hazards. The ski resort triumphed and recently covered its grounds in the sewage-y snow, but there was one little problem: the stuff came out yellow.
Snow "guns" were used to cannon the discolored snow out onto the trails, where some people noticed the fake snow was a little, um, unconvincing. The resort's manager told the New York Times that the color was caused by "rusty residue in the new snow-making equipment" that's piping the snow in from a nearby sewage treatment plant. The government's environmental officials haven't confirmed or denied that. Frank Zappa return?..... | |
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