Artificial clouds could help cool 2022 Qatar World Cup

darubio · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:19

Scientists at Qatar University claim to have developed artificial clouds to provide shade for stadia and training grounds at the 2022 World Cup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9435035.stm

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bullcrap! Im still waiting for my flying car... :rolleyes:

Cosimo · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:21

I hear that flying pigs are also quite effective.

Firestar_3x · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:23

Couldn't they just use Gary Lineker's ears?

Fenris · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:23

Oh yeah, that's gonna happen.

I also heard they are going to have magic sparkle dragons performing Swan Lake during half time and every male spectator will get his own free clone of Jessica Alba.

Syph · 25 Mar 2011 at 12:54

So they're looking at a giant floating carbon fibre (?) cloud with a great big helium pocket that cost £300,000 each.

Would a roof and air con be a lot more expensive than that?

FrankJH · 25 Mar 2011 at 13:00

Syph said:
So they're looking at a giant floating carbon fibre (?) cloud with a great big helium pocket that cost £300,000 each.

Would a roof and air con be a lot more expensive than that?

possibly require less "roofs" than stadia - so to move the roofs where they are required that day rather than having many more fixed ones is a great idea

(personally think this should have hit the presses on 1st April but you never know

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Tomsk · 25 Mar 2011 at 13:10

There will be accusations of cheating when the 'cloud' only shades half the pitch....

One More Solo · 25 Mar 2011 at 13:11

Syph said:
So they're looking at a giant floating carbon fibre (?) cloud with a great big helium pocket that cost £300,000 each.

Would a roof and air con be a lot more expensive than that?

Obviously.

sanaxe1 · 25 Mar 2011 at 13:55

They are also going to have air conditioning in the stadiums powered via solar.

Azza · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:20

What happens if it dies... it's going to fall onto the pitch.

Psycho Sonny · 25 Mar 2011 at 18:13

couldnt they get a big sheet and ropes and pulleys and make a huge curtain?

i reckon i could make one for a stadium for less than 300K

mmj_uk · 25 Mar 2011 at 19:06

Why don't they just play the games late in the evening? or is that simply too sensible for the people who gave Qatar the World Cup to begin with?

shine · 25 Mar 2011 at 19:12

During the group stage they have to play more than one game a day to fit everything into the schedule. However they could play the games overnight!

Greenlizard0 · 25 Mar 2011 at 19:29

In which case everybody would freeze to death.

It sounds like a hair brained scheme, but then stadiums that are air conditioned would be a new idea as well.

They're not poor Qatar, so in the spirit of 'any problem in the world can be beaten to death with a £50 note', I reckon they may well pull this off if they wanted to.

Bes · 26 Mar 2011 at 19:27

Greenlizard0 said:
In which case everybody would freeze to death.

It sounds like a hair brained scheme, but then stadiums that are air conditioned would be a new idea as well.

They're not poor Qatar, so in the spirit of 'any problem in the world can be beaten to death with a £50 note', I reckon they may well pull this off if they wanted to.

Um... It's not cold in Qatar in summer at night. In fact it's about 30 degrees out.

Greenlizard0 · 26 Mar 2011 at 21:18

I thought it'd be cold at night like when I went to Egypt and Tunisia (desert climate).

Owenb · 27 Mar 2011 at 13:36

Remote controlled 'cloud' hovering over 70-80k people in front of the worlds media- seems like a great target for al-Qaeda...

Greenlizard0 · 27 Mar 2011 at 13:47

Chin up, it may well suit that the political climate has changed by then.