Read the article. They have been doing that, but that is just slowing things down and buying them time.

foota a day ago | parent | next [-]

They are not. I said ice cold. I read this article and several other articles about this.

I suspect it is impractical to refrigerate a large volume of water in short order. Heck, if I take 2-3 glasses of water out of my refrigerator's water dispenser, it's at tap temperature.

To put it differently, think through what it would take to refrigerate the volume of water that they are spraying. Can someone pull that together in a matter of minutes or hours?

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foota 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah that's fair. It does make me wonder what there is that would allow this. Maybe importing some snow machines from Tahoe? :-)

I'm actually a little surprised that a quick search for "refrigerated liquid transport" didn't turn up anything. I would have sort of thought this was something that would exist (just because there are so many random things that are necessary for _some purpose_).

	▲	gwbas1c 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Maybe importing some snow machines from Tahoe? :-) That's not even funny: 1: Snowmaking equipment doesn't involve any chillers, they work by spraying a fine mist when the temperature is below freezing. 2: (Unless something changed in the last decade), the vast majority of snow in Tahoe is natural, not man-made. 3: There are closer ski areas than Tahoe. Mountain High, Mammoth... 4: Even if snowmaking involved chilling, (which it doesn't), it requires a significant amount of water and pressurized air, which requires specialized equipment and access to an energy source. It's assembled in the off season. Is it even practical to assemble all that in a matter of hours? Heck, is it even practical to disassemble it at a ski area's snowmaking equipment, truck it, and then re-assemble it? --- Lesson for you: Keep your assumptions in check. You keep coming up with very creative, but highly impractical, solutions. If you're on an engineering team, bring your suggestions with a dose of humility, learn to listen, and see how more experienced people solve problems. Furthermore, in a time-sensitive situation, constantly explaining to someone why their creative ideas are impractical takes precious time away from solving the real problem.
	▲	itishappy 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Snow machines are just big spray nozzles. They don't chill the water the way you might be thinking. There's some adiabatic cooling from the expansion of compressed air, but that's about it. Refrigerated liquid transport absolutely exists. Milk trucks is an example off the top of my head. Liquified natural gas is another.
	▲	defrost 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> "refrigerated liquid transport" Well, "Ice Cold" water is ice and ice trucks are a thing - not to mention for fast substantive cooling 0 Celsius ice blocks on top of the tank would soak up far more heat energy than the same weight of 0 Celsius water. As for the transportation of cold liquids, there are many LNG / Propane trucks about - pressurised containers for Liquefied Natural Gas.

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Freedom2 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	vitally3643 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unprompted rules-lawyering is not productive or interesting discussion either
	▲	fcsp a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Read the article in the context of the comment clearly means "I have read the article - here's my conclusion of its context relating to your post". Did you even read the thread?