Digital Ice Maker

This is a high capacity digital ice maker that makes a tray of ice in no more than 10 minutes. They designed it for RV's, game rooms, and home bars. I like the idea of the design to have ice where ever you can find an outlet, but how often do am I asking myself, gosh I wish I had some ice. I feel this was designed as more of a luxury item for people who can afford things such as a RV, or game room. At a near 300 dollar price tag I think I will stick with the ice maker in my fridge or the bags of ice at the grocery store. I did find that Americans on average use about a pint of water as ice a day. The energy consumed to turn that water in to ice turns out to be about 5,000 tons of coal or 17,000 barrels of oil. That energy is used to take the energy out of water to turn it to ice. When Ice melts it regains that energy, so in the process of making Ice it seems we are just wasting natural resources. If Americans want to start conserving energy more I would not recommend this product.