As temperatures warm, ski and snowboard resorts are investing more in snowmaking and seeing their seasons shrink. Those costs roll down to customers in an already expensive sport.
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In Beijing’s climate, you could coat a Sydney apartment in a few inches of snow with the same energy the air conditioning would use in an hour.
Snowmaking machines can produce enough snow to cover a run, but artificial snow is very different from natural flakes that fall from the sky.
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Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director Center for Sport Management and Education and the Laboratory for Sustainability in Sport, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah
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Postdoctral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Physical Chemistry and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Sydney
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Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
