Are you ready for the new downtown Greensboro ice rink? The N&R sure is, putting everybody’s mind at ease that the rink will function just fine in less-than-winter-like weather.
Mind you, I’m no expert, but as I watched the city do everything it could to justify a $5 million DOE grant, I couldn’t help but wonder just how ‘green’ the ice rink is, based on the graphic in the N&R print edition:
*Dimensions: 40 x 85
*Square feet: 3,400
*Tubing underneath ice: Six miles
*Amount of cooling in the tubes: 1,000 gallons
*Capacity of chiller: 150 tons
*Number of average homes chiller could cool: 30
*Amount of water needed to fill the rink: 2,300 gallons
I guess the city has plenty of water now that the Randleman reservoir is flowing to G’boro, making the days of brown lawns and mellow yellow seem sooooo aughts.
