Making Snow for the Olympics | National Geographic
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- A Michigan-based snowmaking company, SMI Snow Makers, is using the latest technology to create snow for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Their machines create snow crystals that are like two-week-old snow from Mother Nature. But while Mother Nature takes hours or days to manufacture the crystals, SMI's machines make the snow in 3 to 15 seconds.
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Wow great you guys have an excellent job I don't ski myself but I love the winter Olympics thanks for posting , the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics Winter Games brought me here.
What's the point of holding the Winter Olympics in a place where snow isn't guaranteed?
You just need an enormous amounts of snow for WO. Transporting snow is troublesome and pretty much pointless.
Games can be held anywhere. International Olympic Committee demands snow with specific density and humidity, so even if there is snow already it will have to be covered with this artificial one. These machines have to be on every Winter Olympic game, even if it takes place in Courchevel in French Alps or on Kamchatka peninsula or wherever.
AFAIK these machines are being produced in Israel. So funnily enough they are buying snow from Jews.
Komodo Saurian BUT WHAT ABOUT THE STARVING CHILDREN??? Lol jk. Olympics more important.
+Jonathan Castro I am not sure there is any place that you can guarantee snow, I have skied all over the world and I have had great conditions and I also have been burnt, you just never know.
Scott Gibson check out mt baker
Thats actually really cool.
They don't know about Syberia! There is free of charge snow landscape for the thousands miles around here for snow sports, including real mountains :-).
MUY BUEN VIDEO ....
WoW! This is great!
I guess their next destination is Pyeongchang, South Korea for 2018 Winter Olympics.
YOU DIDNT PREDICT ANYTHING
These machines need to be(near mountains or glacier features) set up to increase or help rebuild snow pack densities for areas that rely on snow melt run off as a water source.
John Lawson, wow that's genius.
A.J. Deutsch its amazing how i have totally forgot about that comment. Many of the ideas i have are ridiculed since i am never in the position to make them come to fruition. im sincere. Thank you. A.J.
ssoo... if you used a peaty brown lake or river water, snow would be brown?
This guy probably built the snow machine in the mall of Dubai. How many companies are in the snow business.
Come to Toronto, I have a yard full of this crap you can have for free.
Ok that makes sense
Bizim kangallarda böyle aynı ama timsah yok memlekette orda bi sıkıntı var.
Is it cold?
The only thing is i wouldn't eat resort snow unless it was fresh all that fluoridated snowboard wax is not good
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Devoir faire de la neige artificielle dans un pays comme la Russie, c'est sûr que je n'y aurais pas cru!
(tellement qu'il fait chaud en Sibérie)
Evidemment ce n'est pas en Sibérie. J'espère que ce sera de beaux jeux. L'occasion de voyager, au fond. De découvrir.
Сочи-не сибирь. Сочи это юг России. Там мы загораем!!!
Это курорт
just frozen water
fan jet and a ir and water any one know what they are ad if theyre still used today it looked like a fan jet at the beginning of video
I’m running one right now
@@timmyteabag69 fan jet ? Or air and water? Hunter Mt. in New York used to use fan jets 99 percent in the mid 80s. Now I think it’s all air and water. And all way above ground. Lol
@@elliottnunez1057 fan jet, i make snow for pipelines
Third!!!
wow!
GrizzlyBear55 I know there's Sarcasm in there
ugh, those horrid jean, bleh
err no.. i won't be eating unfiltered snow from lake waters.. 90% contaminated water with giardia. snow from the sky however is perfectly edible.