oh and welcome to technology update while the. olympics the clock behind me time is ticking. summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex. countdown. placed in the country. the next winter olympics are fast approaching and that it's time for the final push. towards.

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propane tucked inside the system for which was designed by rocket engine maker machinist that i only plant given the stakes designers and engineers want to make sure everything works exactly as it should. first of all the torch has to stay late under any condition and it must light immediately it has to function twelve minutes in temperatures lower than forty five degrees below zero it has to work properly whether there is wind blowing from the left from the right behind the front and so on it has to work in the rain snow or any other whether. the torch has to function in a high mountain where there is low pressure which is important but in my limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. before the torch can be used to light the cauldron in sochi next year it's got quite a busy travel schedule ahead of it it will make its way all over russia being carried by many of the country's biggest and brightest personalities the list of

those carrying the flame will likely include summer olympians who will have to sit on the sidelines as their cold weather compatriots carry the national banner into competition. over seven the torch will be lit in greece and flown over to moscow from there it will be taken on a whirlwind one hundred twenty three day tour around russia is slated to pastor nearly three thousand cities and to cover around sixty five thousand kilometers in the process but fifteen thousand olympic and paralympic torches will be built specially designed to deal with whatever the russian winter throws at it rain wind or snow the olympic flame and ideals it represents simply won't be extinguished. the journey to this point started five and a half years ago when precious and vicious plan was chosen. the olympic park and a company to reno will be down to the water's edge amid sochi subtropical weather

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project. to make sure that they don't unnecessarily threaten the environment or spectators. in the distance russian technology is being used for that very purpose . the longest track in the world. in the whole of russia. it was built from the ground up. to make sure everything is working smoothly in anticipation of the world's attention the technology required to create such breathtaking displays is. giving ice at just the right temperature and consistency is a major part of the task. so far the results speak for themselves. i like the track the ice is getting better every day is becoming. i think the track was designed properly. in the case

. of the course is really priority number one. there are three inclined to help keep over the top speed. keep an eye on the potentially dangerous chemicals used to make the track traditionally ammonia and freon have been the two main ways to keep big things cool refrigerants have always been valued for the relatively low cost as well as better cooling stats that's been balanced against their overpowering smell and serious toxicity freon on the other hand lower toxicity levels and is totally odorless which actually may make three leaks more difficult to spot it's uses waned in recent decades as qualities have become better known a major reason and so cheap to. free doesn't have. any kind of smell. it's a heavy gas and in case of major leaks it settles down to the ground.

presence of the air so if they enter a room with a freon leak they can experience oxygen deficiency which may result in poisoning or even death. so while the key track doesn't use the dangerous freon. pumping throughout. the company responsible for producing first. in case of a leak they have three levels of warning depending on the concentration of whole sections of the piping can be closed off. the system so it would take fifteen to sixty minutes for information about emergencies to reach those who needed it at times it was even covered up now it's impossible to conceal this kind of data. the company actually develops and produces a wide array of different detecting sensors they run the gamut from electro

chemical catalytic to acoustic the heart they all have fast acting technology after going through calibration and testing here at incomes office they're ready to be plugged in for round the clock contamination monetary. magically it's constantly running constantly doing what it's supposed to. the case of an emergency within forty seconds. transmitted to trigger the warning system and allows the necessary measures to be taken it all happens very quickly. with. all the data from such sensors are. local and federal branches of the country's emergency services ministry potentially harmful chemicals are used information from the connected to monitoring stations like this. and another pair of. monitors failed to spot a problem those in the local and federal watchdog should be able to react in real

time. to record breaking feats. where the ongoing construction and coming influx of sports mad fans power grid was in need of much. louder. transmission. substation was built in two thousand. construction on the surrounding area. for all the other substations popping up in the area after it given the sometimes twenty degrees below zero temps engineers how much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid company has increased the number of mountain substations many times over the. transformers are already hooked in and deliver the right voltage to the mountain new sites while under construction is said to be ready for action this march at the same time six more have been built

provide the juice to the coastal cluster and surrounding areas if that weren't enough the existing substations have been updated to ensure the lights don't go out on the olympics. over the past few years. constant. projects have been completed and. the. safe. stations have to give an extra. capacity to believe. that they clean. fuel for generators.

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it's almost hard road to time for any of the sun here in russia have added an experimental exercise in the morning regress training regimen. it seems cruel but despite all the hard work blood sweat and tears the majority of aspiring athletes will never reach these peaks of professional sport but that in mind researchers working with the university of physical culture and sport in moscow are looking to harness the latest technology to get aspiring athletes over that hump says potentially dangerous and illegal doping isn't an option the new secret to success

may lie in element ever present in the air we breathe but longer overlooked. was discovered over one hundred years ago by sir william ramsey and morse travers' a novel finding certainly but practical applications for it were fleeting until the one nine hundred thirty s. when it found use in high speed flash photography and a bit later as an anesthetic in operations however it is a high cost prevented from being adopted by the medicine that all could be changing . thanks to work being carried out here at the institute of medical and biological problems xenon could be on the verge of a major revival. amongst the hyperbaric chambers where many of the country's divers and astronauts have gone through pressure chamber tests and training docs are taking a look at just what xenon has to offer. in recent years what used to be observable favorable side effects of xenon base and has become objects of inquiry in their own right. exactly how the gas interacts with receptors is still

under study initial trials and experiments have shown that xenon and its neuroprotective properties can relieve stress anxiety and even help addicts get over withdrawal symptoms. and if we talk about the production of the. in russia there's no better place to look than in the business for over twenty years it ships its goods all over the globe company officials placed their market share but around one quarter of total demand. for most of their history though the company has primarily dealt with so-called technical xenon that is not for human ingestion but over the years as the gases and medical benefits have grown the demand for alter peers seen on has followed accordingly. other noble gases are all around us all of the time they just in such small quantities that getting our hands on them require sophisticated machinery and no small dose of know how as a result there's

a very limited number of countries currently able to capture scene and put it to use for human kind. you know if for me to portray it as all of us who are all human producers worldwide extracted from air but what if there are only five countries they produce it commercially the united states france germany russia and ukraine. is recovered as a byproduct of oxygen production it's large mental or physical factories for its plants special air separating machines single out oxygen and also generate as an encrypted mixture as a byproduct of the next of those to gases is then shipped to us before the refining which we manufacture xenon for medical purposes the mixture requires extra puti cation. the purity of these even they will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent edition only we also limit the share of ten harmful impurities in

the gas our refining technology isn't paid indeed unique and allows us to remove all these impurities entity impunity they can further be used for surgeries and all kinds of other treatments and. at the end of the process they get and nearly ready to be. to clinics and hospitals under the brand name med at the moment. expensive especially when compared with other. proponents argue that when you take into account problems in complications associated with other gases the prices come closer together before the medical gets into the hands of a qualified doctor every batch is tested and checked for purity. requires them to control for six kinds of impurities they go the extra mile and control for a full tin as a result. the medical produced here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year we discover new particularly

using xenon as an end. as a result. of the absolutely new ways to play. this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time. and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body depending on what the problem is with but which. has many potential applications researchers here are specifically interested in how it can improve the performance of athletes they recently organize an experiment to lay the groundwork for future use in sports. to be a very strong stress protector. in other words in all cases involving stress whether it be acute a chronic stress the best way to deal with it is small therapeutic doses of this substance and when we talk about spilled before competition and athletes needs to

relax sleep well and improve he's a functional capacities with this experiment we're trying to see just how xenon can help him. so over a ten day period a group of young athletes were given a controlled dose of and had a healthy. understand actually interacts with the organisms as well as working. after taking in the. country.

after the experiment. it was much easier for me to train i was able to recover much more quickly afterwards. during the test. i posted the best results. researchers hope. it's going to be. hopefully they will be able to use it to help.

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what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more patrie down here the bottom line there's still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. d.c. it is going to pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of in life nobody's allowed to be driving lessons from emergency vehicles are exceptions. it is easy. to be easy. to see.

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