It was nice of you to provide subtitles for the alien audience!

"Wet bulb temperature" is nicely explained to figure temperature and humidity variations for more efficient snow making. Thank you.

Really wonderful production Joel! Having followed OnTheSnow's progression over the past few years I can tell you I am more than excited to see what the future holds for you. Between your spot-on predictions and your continually exemplified passion for what you do, I sincerely wish you all the best. Bring on the pow!

"Farther from the ocean" Draws a line from the Atlantic to the Rockies.

The "airless" snow gun, is not airless at all, there's a compressor under the main cone. Fan blows out the the water, already mixed with water. There are different sets of nozzles, of which some are called "nucleators", which mix air and water and create so-called nucleation core, which creates a solid base for a snowflake formation. In fact, there've never been working "airless" snowguns, because it's impossible. There were some models using venturi effect, but again, it needed certain amount of air to be pulled into water nozzle in order to make it freeze. During the air expansion, the air temperature falls down to -30 or less (depending on the air pressure), that's why the compressed air is mandatory in snowmaking.

Cool video. Check your facts. You have most of it. It comes down to two different styles of guns. Internal nucleation and external nucleation. The closet thing to an air less gun is snow logic, and hkd vipers. They operate on as little as 5 psi. The SMI pole cat fan gun in your video that you refer to as air less is in fact very different. They operate with a water source that is mountain provided and have a on board compressor that generates the air necessary for the nucleation process. Snow making companies around the globe strive to reach as low of a PSI that can pump through the machines to create snow as air is the most expensive component. No air less guns on the market as of now being march of 2016. Thank you and god bless snow makers world wide. More then happy to go further in depth.

At cardrona, new zealand, we make snow at up to +3 degrees C. humidity is usually pretty low so that helps

There's going to be alot of people here when youtube randomly recommends this in the future. I on the other hand, had no idea people could Ski in Las Vegas

Closed Captioning is really messed up in this video lol.

Joel I study ski area operations in Leadville Colorado, and interestingly enough we have a truly airless and powerless gun. its called the York water stick. it is old and inefficient and the snow quality sucks and requires a temp of 14 degrees or lower. I also make snow for Keystone Resort and in speaking with my controller i have learned that our HKD tower guns will also make snow with only water (no air) in 9 degree or lower temps. all temps are wet bulb measurements.

great !!

@ftwcm - You have an eagle eye! Yes, the fan gun that we used in the video does use compressed air, though we wanted to use that gun because it looks similar to an airless gun and we didn't have easy access to a true airless gun. About the expansion of the compressed air, that works in tandem with evaporational cooling to chill the air, but I didn't want to lump too many concepts into one video. Thanks for your comment! JOEL

Both require 2 inputs......Power & Water and Air & Water

I have a question, I’m really into using water a lot and I want to make snow at resorts near me. Do you know how can I become a snow maker?

first video to mention wet bulb, good one

I wanna quit my job and get a job at a ski resort .

yEAHHH! New Zealand Represent !

fan guns have compressors and nucleation nozzles as well... do some freaking research You can even see the nucleator when they turn the fan gun on...

i was succes making natural rain using salt,,in a java island size,,anybody could share making natural snow in a continental size,,million thanks,,best regard,,hhe

Is their any way to make snow with temperatures above 32 degrees to 120 degrees?

What chemicals do you put in the water now?

Sick ass video you remind me of the dude that got locked up in ‘The Office’ XD

I wished you provided the temperature in Celsius, at least in brackets. Or you bothered to mention that the temperature references in the video are in Fahrenheit. You got me confused, bro.

nice vid dude👍🙂

I want to make snow in my country - Vietnam, I have a ideal about an entertainment zone with snow for my people who mostly can not afford to have trip to the cold area to see snow.

What are these subtitles?

timberline at mount hood refuses to do snowmaking

not true... both guns require compressed air and water. the fan gun has an on-board compressor- the center nozzle is air + water and the rings of nozzles are just water, the fan is just for throw/ hang time

dont you need condensation nuclei too? ive tried making snow before at home with compressed air and water but it didn't work, we think because we didnt have condensation nuclei

SUPER

Do you like one or two inputs guys?

Can you make snow in California

It's not fake snow, it's frozen water just like the snow that falls from the sky

Surprised how automated some of these systems are now. Cool stuff, though of course real snow is always the best. ;-)

is there a way to make snow in the desert?

i thought california was hot how do you make snow if its hot

electricity is an input

Com from school

Omg 22,222 views

Wait what’s wrong with the subtitles 😂

it fen.

which is bettter

Why does fresh snow from these guns stick like glue and make everyone fall over when they hit it?

Why making snow🙄

The caption 👁️👄👁️

Who else is here doing research on the fake snow, cause of what snow fall in Texas?😭😂

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The guns seem kind of like fuel injectors.

This is SOOOOO complicated

Yo what the fucking shit is wrong with the subtitles