{"id":3923,"date":"2009-01-07T19:30:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T00:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3923"},"modified":"2009-01-07T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T03:44:21","slug":"global-warming-killed-the-zamboni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3923","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Killed The Zamboni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3425\/3177664185_38575222c0.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twice the cost of a Zamboni at $160,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Toronto, Canada&#8217;s largest city, is slowly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/01\/03\/zambonis-benched-in-favor-of-electric-icecats\/\">phasing out their Zambonis in favor of Finnish-made IceCats<\/a>. So is the National Hockey League. And the reason is carbon monoxide: while the Zambonis run on propane or natural gas, the IceCats are all-electric. In an indoor arena, that can make all the difference: it&#8217;s no big surprise to read that a study in the <em>American Journal of Public Health<\/em> determined that replacing carbon-emitting resurfacing machines with electric ones would reduce the concentration of nitrogen dioxide in indoor arenas by 87%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>87% percent of what number? How much difference can a Zamboni or two make in a huge ice arena?<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;d a thought you could make a Zamboni any uglier.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or is it ironic that the NHL is a spectacle featuring juiced up hockey players beating the piss out of each other while at the same time worrying about inhaling too much NO<sup>2<\/sup>?<\/p>\n<p>Hysteria can be hysterical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/01\/03\/zambonis-benched-in-favor-of-electric-icecats\/\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice the cost of a Zamboni at $160,000&#8230; Toronto, Canada&#8217;s largest city, is slowly phasing out their Zambonis in favor of Finnish-made IceCats. So is the National Hockey League. And the reason is carbon monoxide: while the Zambonis run on propane or natural gas, the IceCats are all-electric. In an indoor arena, that can make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}