Snow Dome in Wycombe

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Just found out today that there is a Snow Dome planned to replace (or augment) the dry ski slope in Wycombe. Its brilliant news and apparently should take a year. Some sketchy information on this Wycombe Summit website. Might go look soon and report back if anything is happening.
It seems that there are several of these snow domes going up in the area though. Perhaps buoyed by the success of the three big ones (Milton Keynes being one of them). I just hope that they really take spiralling energy costs into consideration and build in some decent insulation to cut down their costs. Otherwise I can see it becoming prohibitively expensive to run pretty quickly.
It shouldn't be that hard to build smart, but of course the material and design costs would be higher. Considering that humans were building ice houses long long along, it should be possible.