von Skitraxworld
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28 Nov., 2023
Christmas market in Kassel (GER) makes it possible with Tubtrax SP. A true fairy tale slide was opened at Christmas Market at the end of November in the German city Kassel. 70m long with 4 lanes side by side, this TÜV-certified slide made of precious metal elegantly pulls itself down the many meeting steps. The rapid wavy constructed track is heavily used by young and old. Top speeds of up to 40 Km/h (25 Miles) are reached on specially designed plastic slides. Actually, this slide was to be made slippery again with specially produced artificial ice. An ice machine always supplied the slide with fresh ice in the years before Corona - now, in September 2022, Kassel's city council declared that it would not provide electricity for such equipment because of the energy crisis. Already in the past, the cost of electricity for cooling had risen to 9.000 kWh per year - more than many households achieve per year. What now with the fairytale slide? What cost-effective alternative is there??