At Staples arena, they're making ice from thin air
by Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times
Jul 06, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Executives from Staples Center and the Los Angeles Kings were willing to hear a start-up's pitch about slicing energy costs and improving the quality of the arena's ice sheet, which has never enjoyed a great reputation among professional hockey players.
But when they heard they could do all that and more using a machine that pulls water straight from the air, their first reaction was to laugh out loud.
"It sounded crazy, just too good to be true," Kelly Cheeseman, chief operating officer for the Los Angeles Kings and AEG Sports, said of the idea floated at
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