It’s really starting to snow - just in time for the half-term holidays. That soon makes us forget how often we have complained bitterly about too little snow for skiing or snowboarding. Hello and welcome to our latest edition of NEWTON. In Austria it is pretty rare these days to find a skiing area that is not supplied with artificial snow. It is estimated that there are more than twenty thousand snow cannon in our Austrian mountains. The amount of energy and water squandered in this way is simply enormous! What is more, you can’t really compare artificial snow with superb, natural powder snow. But science is feverishly working on alternatives - like a kind of cloud chamber which produces the finest powder snow artificially. Let’s find out more!
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