An ice rink in the Golden Triangle?

[RocketCityDawg]

I have nerdy tendencies.
Started out as a EE major.

Although MSU's in a relatively flat area, there are hills.
Under those hills, the dirt stays a fairly constant temperature.

The current political paradigm is to conserve energy.

So, there's an opportunity for some of our research people at MSU to prepare a proposition, that some of those massive billions of dollars now being spent, to have a project to propose: a skating rink, built under an earth berm, sustained by natural energy, solar or wind, to demonstrate efficiency of such an endeavor, in a typically warm environment.

Yeah, that's an off the wall idea.

That's what MSU experimental folks do the best.

Several decades ago, I was working on the Apollo moon program here in Huntsville, shortly after getting my MBA from MSU. There were still guys at MSU working on recycling waste products on future space missions. That was back in the 1960's, and waste is now being recycled in the Space Station.

So, to make this a sports post, our club hockey team could benefit from that under-the-hill ice rink project, which would elevate all mankind. NASA may even help fund it.

RCD

 

[dgsmith15]

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[RocketCityDawg]

RCD

 

[biguglyjoe]

*****

 

[Sutterkane]

but you need to make the place a multi-floor design, to use it as a roller hockey floor or basketball court or indoor soccer facility as well. Nobody wants to wear long sleeves and pants to go ice-skating in the middle of July.

Maybe in the next Hump renovation it can be looked into to use it as an ice rink occasionally? You could make it an ice rink on the weekends in the winter/spring and charge entry for non-students plus a concession stand AND skate rentals and make a little cash for the university (preferably the hockey club) off it too. Plus it's something fun for kids to do that isn't trouble.

 

[FireworksForJeffy]

The biggest reason that things aren't built underground in Mississippi (how many of you grew up with basements? I didn't...) is because of the clay content of the soil in this region. Clay expands and contracts with moisture level, so the walls of an underground hockey arena are going to be under not insignificant pressure every time it rains, at least that'll be true if East Mississippi has anywhere near the soil structure as Vicksburg.

 

[Stansfield]

It would be cool to see something like that around here.

 

[HockeyDawg14]

Nifty idea Rocket, I'll swing the idea by my dad who works in the research park working on environmentally friendly stuff. He might know someone that could actually make that happen. Given the current economic climate it's a long shot but I bet there's still a chance. MSU took the step forward with the campus bicycle program, so maybe someday there will be the most environmentally friend ice rink in the world in Starkville, MS. How wild would that be?