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Snow: Good for Cooling, Communists and Creativity

By Jesse Huffman

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Snowboarders are no strangers to collecting snow and re-purposing it for their needs: jumps, drop-ins, landing piles for urban jibs -- even halfpipes and parks are all examples of what you can get snow to do if you're creative. Now, urban engineers in Canada, Sweden, and Japan are catching on to that lateral thinking, collecting snow in gigantic piles to cool buildings off in the summer. A company called Snowpower is pioneering the industrial application, notably at the Swedish Sundsvall ...

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