![]() Why don’t people just sprinkle water to make snow? Water is a unique material, it expands when it freezes and it has high heat of fusion, thus your ice cubes float and last a long time. These snowmaking machines make snow by breaking water into small particles, cooling the water by causing them to move through cold air, nucleating the water particles and distributing the resulting snow on a surface. However, this is very expensive and labor intensive for larger scale requirements, so, if possible, machines that convert water into snow directly and on site are used. So, the really old way of making snow, and the way they still do in the tropics and for special events, is to grind up blocks of ice. Basically, snow is small particles of ice. ![]() ![]() Given water, electric or diesel energy, and temperatures below 32☏ (0☌) snowmakers can provide snow. When nature doesn’t cooperate by providing natural snow, snowmakers take over. ![]()
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