Bikes in Sapporo under snow, photo: Daniel Cuthbert.

When your island gets 20-30 feet of snow in a year, I suppose coming up with interesting ways to put that snow to use. That’s just what Japan’s transport ministry plans on doing at the new New Chitose Airport terminal in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Japan Today is reporting that the ministry plans on introducing a system by 2010 which will use collected snow to provide 30% of the facility’s cooling energy. Here’s how i