If you have a long driveway or need to go anywhere the white stuff isn’t so much fun after a while. On the other hand if you’re running a ski resort or like to hit the slopes you probably wish for the snow to fall. The problem is that Mother Nature doesn’t always like to play along. The solution has long been to simply make snow, but unfortunately making snow takes a lot of energy and consumes a lot of power.
This year many resorts might just introduce a new “aireless” snowmaking system that allows more snow to make with far less energy. Roundtop Mountain Resort in central Pennsylvania recently added nine new Techno Alpin automated snowmaking towers to its snowmaking system, which is networked to a weather station so it can let it blow, let it blow, let it blow as soon as the air temperatures allow. The system further monitors the air’s temperature and humidity levels and can adjust accordingly to produce the absolute best snow possible. And there is that old saying about fooling mother nature – what about doing mother nature one better!
It is also worth noting that traditional systems use an “air/water” mix, but the fact that compressed air is expensive and comes out hot means lost energy. This new airless system basically cuts out the air – so you can there is no hot air with the Techno Alpin solution.
