No mention of the enery required to "make it snow" (a lot), no mention of added nucleators ("Snow-Inducer"), no clear disclaimer in the video that this is paid for content.,(reply>), @ValleysOfRain I know about the logistics of energy transport, don't worry.  <br><br>Cooking your food and creating artificial snow are not really on the same level of uselessness for me. I personally think that  "energy freedom" is a big word for the ability to slide down a hill on artificial snow.   <br><br>Anyway, you can relax, it is unlikely that I will outlaw artificial snow! But people need to be aware that wasteful living is a privilege, whether it's artificial snow... ...or throwing away food. ,(reply>), @YensR Norway produces most of its electricity from renewable sources. That should be applauded. <br>It uses some of its surplus to power snow machines. So? that's their business what they do with their power from their plants.<br>The fact is, the logistics of transporting the power to other countries is wasteful. They can sell it to neighbouring grids like Sweden and possibly Finland and Denmark, buts that's about as far as you can get before the penalty of resistance starts taking chunks out of your power.<br>But, going back to the main issue, by your logic we should get rid of televisions, radios, game consoles, street lights, personal computers, etc etc, because they're all unnecessary. But then where do we stop? do we ban everything that uses electricity unless it has a direct utility? <br>Do we just power heaters, house lights, cooking appliances, fridges and washing machines?<br>No. I don't think we should. Push towards more efficient devices, and more clean energy sources, but don't start curtailing people's energy freedoms because "it could be put to better use".<br>That's like saying that people shouldn't have free time because "their time could be put to better use". Bit of a rant, sorry, but I do get quite irritated when people follow that line of reasoning.<br>It's like when your mum chastises you for not eating all of your dinner "because children in Africa are starving". ,(reply>), @SirBillyMays Well, that's like your opinion man. I think you are "drastically" downplaying the problems. Have fun in nature! ,(reply>), @YensR Well, you drastically overstress the issues. As said, we're far, far apart from each other in opinions, but you're free to have yours :)<br><br>Cheerio, I'll go ski now (in natural snow though, because we have that as well :) ),(reply>), @SirBillyMays  <br><br>I'm certainly not the only one who sees mass ski tourism as problematic...<br> <br>You play down the problems "a bit here and a bit there" and stress the benefits. I think these benefits only exist because we are not putting the right cost to the problems. Basically we are drawing a credit from nature and regard it as "free" when it really isn't.  <br><br>Anyway, this is a situation where two people have the same information but draw different conclusions from it. As such, I don't think discussion can be fruitful. Cheerio. 