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Weeks before the world’s best skiers and snowboarders descend on Zhangjiakou, a main site of the Beijing Winter Olympics, a dozen machines furiously churned out snow to cover the mountains they would race down. The slopes were soon blanketed in white, and the canons did not stop there. A deafening sound continued for hours as they coated the rest of the gray landscape to complete a perfect snowy backdrop that could be broadcast around the world. The water droplets they sprayed into the air hovered like white smoke over the venue as freezing temperatures and chemicals helped turn them into ice. Artificial ....
Bright yellow turbines line the slopes of the Beijing Winter Olympics, spraying out the artificial snow needed for the Games to take place. Man-made snow has been used to varying degrees since the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. But February’s Beijing Games will depend almost entirely on artificial snow because they are happening in one of the driest parts of China. With just five weeks until the Games begin, organizers are racing to coat the pistes in high-quality snow a vast and complex task that critics say is environmentally unsustainable. The venues use automated snow-making systems that monitor air temperature ....
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