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Solar-Powered Monte Rosa Alpine Hut

Posted October 10, 2008 3:58 PM

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This remote alpine retreat calls to mind classic James Bond architecture, complete with a futuristic design, advanced building technology, and killer views of the Matterhorn. Can't you just see Bond skiing down the glacier in a white ski suit, stealthily approaching his enemy's headquarters? You could imagine that the top of the roof pulls down to reveal a giant laser, which is used as a tractor beam to smash the moon into Earth as the villain demands 700 million 700 billion dollars from the US Government. Oh wait, sorry, we've been having nightmares about the economy. But seriously though, this hut outside of Zermatt in the Swiss Alps is for real. It's the Swiss Alpine Club's new Monte Rosa mountaineer's hut, and it's 90% energy self-sufficient.

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Re: Solar-Powered Monte Rosa Alpine Hut

10/12/2008 11:36 PM

A hut? They call that 4-storey glittering glass-covered building a hut!

<"....The hut can accommodate up to 125 guests in its restaurant and hostel-like guest rooms.....">

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hut - temporary military shelter army hut, field hutNissen hut, Quonset hut - a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross sectionshelter - a structure that provides privacy and protection from dangerarmed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

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hut - small crude shelter used as a dwellinghovel, shack, shanty, hutchigloo, iglu - an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a domemudhif - a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drainedshelter - a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger


hut noun 1. cabin, shack, shanty, hovel, whare N.Z. noun 2. shed, outhouse, lean-to, lockup hut [hʌt] ncabaña (= shed); cobertizoCollins Spanish Dictionary & Grammar 4th Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006 hut [hʌt] n → hutte f (= shed); cabane fCollins French Dictionary & Grammar 5th Edition 2007 © HarperCollins Publishers 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007hut [hʌt] nHütte fCollins German Dictionary & Grammar 5th Edition 2007© HarperCollins Publishers 1997, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007 hut [hʌt] nrifugio (= shed); ripostiglioCollins Italian Dictionary & Italian in Action 3rd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2000, 2005, 2006


hutn hut [hat]a small house or shelter, usually made of wood.

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10/12/2008 11:57 PM

They're not tooting their own horn eh?

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10/15/2008 3:22 PM

OK, OK, I get it - it's a darned BIG hut! And the Ritz is just a big fancy motel... So they don't suffer from untoward amounts of humility?

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