you know I probably spend two-thirds of
my life thinking and working on snow and
snow making and projects around the
world machine-made snows like
two-week-old natural snow in that
natural snow sometimes takes hours or
days to form as it’s going through the
sky and small particles and it’ll form
those dendritic arms
we’re forming that snow crystal in
somewhere between three and 15 seconds
armed snow is more like a BB or a
grapple and it doesn’t have the
dendritic arms but even natural snow
after it’s compact and loses though
times I’m a second-generation snow
making person my father had been a skier
and started to see a need for snow
making people looking to stabilize their
business and for some type of insurance
and without snow they don’t really have
a business our company has been involved
into the Winter Olympics
for a long time now we’re quite proud of
being associated with Sarajevo Calgary
Salt Lake Nagano with Vancouver and now
was so cheap this was a bit unusual in
that it was a system where there was no
snow making there was really no resort
there we were fortunate to get access to
a couple helicopters and we found a a
beautiful pristine clear cold water
source the higher up the mountain you
can find the water the less energy it
takes to pump and deliver it finding
this river on a shelf where we could
build a couple of lakes to store the
water sort of anchored the snowmaking
system solution they have a snow making
capacity of 12,000 gallons a minute and
they have over 400 of our snow making
machines and they’re all fully automated
they communicate via fiber optic or via
radio modems and it’s a very big
complicated high energy using system but
very efficient and very effective for
the size of it
there’s some concern about what’s going
to happen with the weather there it can
be a bit marginal of a climate
fortunately the cold weather has set up
across the northern hemisphere and
they’re off to a very good snowmaking
start the only thing that really cancels
an event per day might be fog or
visibility where the athletes can’t see
where they’re going and they’re used to
that
[Applause]
snowmaking loves a lot of water
compressed air mixing in a small nozzle
with water droplets creates what we call
ice seeds and those ice seeds will then
nucleate the bulk water blowing it out
and then the cold environment freezes
those small water droplets most of the
snowmaking water sources that we use our
groundwater from wells or their surface
water from rivers or lakes and they’re
generally very clean and very pristine
so in general most people can go ahead
and eat the machine-made snow just like
they eat the natural stuff
my life thinking and working on snow and
snow making and projects around the
world machine-made snows like
two-week-old natural snow in that
natural snow sometimes takes hours or
days to form as it’s going through the
sky and small particles and it’ll form
those dendritic arms
we’re forming that snow crystal in
somewhere between three and 15 seconds
armed snow is more like a BB or a
grapple and it doesn’t have the
dendritic arms but even natural snow
after it’s compact and loses though
times I’m a second-generation snow
making person my father had been a skier
and started to see a need for snow
making people looking to stabilize their
business and for some type of insurance
and without snow they don’t really have
a business our company has been involved
into the Winter Olympics
for a long time now we’re quite proud of
being associated with Sarajevo Calgary
Salt Lake Nagano with Vancouver and now
was so cheap this was a bit unusual in
that it was a system where there was no
snow making there was really no resort
there we were fortunate to get access to
a couple helicopters and we found a a
beautiful pristine clear cold water
source the higher up the mountain you
can find the water the less energy it
takes to pump and deliver it finding
this river on a shelf where we could
build a couple of lakes to store the
water sort of anchored the snowmaking
system solution they have a snow making
capacity of 12,000 gallons a minute and
they have over 400 of our snow making
machines and they’re all fully automated
they communicate via fiber optic or via
radio modems and it’s a very big
complicated high energy using system but
very efficient and very effective for
the size of it
there’s some concern about what’s going
to happen with the weather there it can
be a bit marginal of a climate
fortunately the cold weather has set up
across the northern hemisphere and
they’re off to a very good snowmaking
start the only thing that really cancels
an event per day might be fog or
visibility where the athletes can’t see
where they’re going and they’re used to
that
[Applause]
snowmaking loves a lot of water
compressed air mixing in a small nozzle
with water droplets creates what we call
ice seeds and those ice seeds will then
nucleate the bulk water blowing it out
and then the cold environment freezes
those small water droplets most of the
snowmaking water sources that we use our
groundwater from wells or their surface
water from rivers or lakes and they’re
generally very clean and very pristine
so in general most people can go ahead
and eat the machine-made snow just like
they eat the natural stuff
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