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Gains from investments in snowmaking facilities
Ecological Economics, 2016Abstract The process of making snow requires low temperatures as well as vast quantities of water and considerable amounts of energy for the air compression. In this article the effectiveness of investment in snowmaking systems is investigated (equipment, construction works) based on data for 109 French ski resorts covering eight winter seasons (2006/
Martin Falk, Laurent Vanat
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Snowmaking's Slippery Slope: The Rebound Effect of Mountain Reservoirs on Water Demand
2023Snowmaking is the main adaptation of winter tourism to climate change. It involves the use of large amounts of water, which can lead to conflicts with other human uses and ecosystem needs. The number of reservoirs used to support snowmaking is increasing, as they allow production capacity to be increased, the best cold periods to be selected and ...
Cognard, Jonathan, Berard-Chenu, Lucas
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Treatment and disposal of secondary sewage effluent through snowmaking
2010When secondary sewage effluent is converted to snow, the nutrients and residual organics become concentrated in the early meltwater discharge through melt-freeze processes within the snow-pack. The early season melt comes off relatively slowly. Providing the soil can absorb the early melt, the bulk of the nutrients will be removed even if later season ...
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Automating A Home Snowmaking System Using An AVR Microcontroller
2018Since its invention in the 1950s, snowmaking has been vitally important to the ski industry, lengthening season length, and bringing skiing and snowboarding to areas where it would not previously have been possible. In the past decade and a half, snowmaking system automation has become widespread due to its potential for increased efficiency and ...
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Sacred Mountains and Profane Dollars: Discourses about Snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks
Social & Legal Studies, 2008This research examines media, interview and legal-historical documentation surrounding the current proposal to manufacture snow using reclaimed water at the Snowbowl ski area located on the San Francisco Peaks mountains near Flagstaff, Arizona. The proposal has drawn sharp protest from both American Indian Nations who call the area sacred, and ...
Ophir Sefiha, Pat Lauderdale
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Geophysical and Geotechnical Survey of the Water Storage Tank for Snowmaking
EGRSE – Exploration Geophysics, Remote Sensing and Environment, 2022Brixová, Bibiana +6 more
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Magic of turning water into snow: Artificial snowmaking technology
Chinese Science Bulletin, 2022Peiwen Dong +5 more
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First feedback on safety and pathology of high-altitude dams for snowmaking
2006In winter sports resorts, the construction of dams to provide water storage for the snowmaking have significantly increased over the last decade. These high-altitude dams ranging from 1,300 meters to 2,500 meters, about 10 m high, are mostly waterproofed with a Geomembrane Sealing System (GSS) over the upstream face of the embankment and the whole ...
Mériaux, P. +3 more
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Field Studies of Feldspar-Assisted Snowmaking: Effects on Snow Volume, Density, and Reflectivity
Under most atmospheric conditions, snowfall is triggered by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in clouds through heterogeneous nucleation on airborne particles. Among the most efficient atmospheric ice-nucleating particles, capable of inducing freezing at temperatures only a few degrees below 0 °C, are feldspar minerals.Albert Verdaguer +2 more
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