A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai
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Re: A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai
#2A profligate waste that's very on-brand for Dubai. Glacial ice doesn't taste great anyway, because it's pretty much distilled water.
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#4Their website appears to be targeting hotels, restaurants, and bars. I find it hard to believe that patrons are going to know where the ice in their mixed drink is from.
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#5And Saudi Arabia maintains several pieces of land w/ water rights to import & extract water as alfaalfa. You’d think they’d leverage their oil and build out desalination plants
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#6What is old shall become new again
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-king-s-cross-ice-wel...
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#7Their website appears to be targeting hotels, restaurants, and bars. I find it hard to believe that patrons are going to know where the ice in their mixed drink is from.
i'm sure the drinks menus will prominently market and upsell it as a luxury you pay even more for
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#8Their website appears to be targeting hotels, restaurants, and bars. I find it hard to believe that patrons are going to know where the ice in their mixed drink is from.
If you're an establishment selling to wealthy consumers, which is the market in the kind of places they're targeting, then your clientele does respond to kind of outrageous gimmicks like this. They're seeking novelty and pedigree. Then it comes down to: if you can entice customers to pay some X up charge, pay Y for the ice, and X > Y, then it's worth it for everyone involved to ship that stuff around.
Re: A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai
#9Yes, we need to pay more for CO₂ in Europe. That’ll show 'em.
Re: A new company is shipping Arctic ice from Greenland to Dubai
#10A profligate waste that's very on-brand for Dubai. Glacial ice doesn't taste great anyway, because it's pretty much distilled water.
Dubai is gonna make for some very striking ruins in a few decades...