It's cold here and I can't ski, which has caused me to come up with crazy ideas as to how I can ski in the winter. Obviously moving south makes the most sense, but why do things the easy way?
Everyone has thought of a 2100' x 300' machine shed for skiing indoors, (which, does anyone know whether you can have a 300' wide building with no center columns?) but I have found a way to take it a step further. Nautique already made an electric boat, but who wants to mess around with charging batteries all day? My ski barn would have a power cable running along the length of it, with a cord running down to the boat. It would be similar to a bumper car arena, where the cars have the pole going to the ceiling for power. Solar panels will be placed all over the roof to power the boat from the sun when possible. I'm sure we could find a way to put an underwater rail system in to keep the boat going in a straight line to eliminate driving variables as well. Heating the lake (or is it a pool?) would be expensive, but it could probably be done.
There you have it. An indoor lake that never has wind, can be skied in all year long, and is environmentally friendly. Now we just need someone to pay for it.