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Ask HN: Sustainability and open air heated swimming pools
2 points by profsummergig on Dec 25, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
I'm traveling through a state well-known world-wide for its virtue-signaling on sustainability (climate/environmental).

My motel has an open air heated swimming pool and hot tub. And it's cold outside.

All of yesterday, I was the only person who used either.

Two vats containing thousands of gallons of water. One heated to a very high temperature, the other to a slightly lower temperature. All year long, 24/7. Steam constantly rising from both.

How do they (the state's government/activists/citizens) justify this? Is this energy coming from a green source and cannot be used elsewhere?



I don't think I see the connection between a state's population on average being climate conscious, and a single business entity doing something wasteful. Are you saying this is some kind of "gotcha" against the activists because they're not picketing the hotel?


I'm wondering what's the point of all that virtue signaling if there's so much obvious waste in a public facing activity.






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