well into the future to the finish as world class athletes ascend on sochi brand new olympic venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling infrastructure digs deep and builds hard to get thousands where they need to be it's a building boom fueled by clean energy while research is pretty new life into gold medal dreams the race is on going to see a day here on. the central. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in

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oh and welcome to technology update while this. may not immediately scream winter olympics the clock behind me shows that time is ticking. transforms itself from a sunny summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex. fact that the final countdown is on. not so little reminders were placed in a smattering of the country cities announcing that the next winter olympics are fast approaching and that it's time for the final push. and adding fuel to the nation's. was the recent unveiling of official uniforms and torch for the run up to the games really. to resemble

a feather conjure up the image of. the torch edition began at the one nine hundred thirty six olympics has been kept alive in every one since. each host country has tried to. something special from the nation itself. for the one nine hundred sixty games in the u.s. was designed by engineer. dynamic enough to allow it to be. transmitted via satellite that was transported underwater at the grey. barrier reef before the two thousand sydney games. winter olympics the torch was built by plane and train maker that year. the ninety five centimeter tall torch has been specially designed but the center of gravity. of the shape the body is made of aluminum and weighs

a total of one point eight kilograms the flame is powered by propane tucked inside the system for which it was designed by a rocket engine maker machinist only plant given the stakes designers and engineers want to make sure everything works exactly as it should. first of all. under any condition and it must light immediately it has to function. in temperatures lower than forty five degrees below zero it has to work properly whether there is wind blowing from the right behind the front. it has to work in the rain or any other whether. the torch has to function in. where there is low pressure which is important but in my limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. 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 carried by

many of the country's biggest and brightest personalities the list of those carrying will likely include some. sidelines as their cold weather compatriots carry the national banner into competition. and flown over to moscow it will be taken on a whirlwind one hundred twenty three day tour around russia is slated to pass through 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.

the first. each hour. only heavy machinery and supplies are being tugged up and down the line. by the time two thousand and fourteen rolls around new electric. speeds up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour thirty minutes from bottom to top it's your high speed to all of the olympic projects under expert

review to make sure that they don't necessarily threaten the environment or spectators. in the distance russian technology is being used for that very purpose . in the world. it was built from the ground up. to make sure everything is working. the world's attention the technology required to create such breathtaking displays . 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 to 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. 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 ammonia refrigerants have always been valued for the relatively low cost as well as better cooling 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 for leaks more difficult to spot it's you . recent decades destroying qualities have become better known a major reason. to be. free on doesn't have any kind of smell. it's quite a heavy gas and in case of major leaks it settles down to the ground. out.

there 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 sun keep track does it 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. prior to implementing these systems it would take fifteen to sixteen 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 developed some produces a wide array of different detecting sensors they run the gamut from electro

chemical to thermal catalytic to acoustic the heart they all have fast acting technology after going through calibration and testing here in comes off as 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 do and in 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. to local and federal branches of the country's emergency services ministry. 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 devote all their attention to record breaking feats. or the ongoing construction and coming influx of sports mad the region's power grid was in need of much more. transmission power. station was built in two thousand using techniques that reduced the construction on the surrounding area it's. all the other substations popping up in the area after it given the sometimes twenty degrees below zero temps engineers house and much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid company has increased the number of mountain substations many times 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. and surrounding areas if that weren't enough existing substations have been updated to ensure the lights don't go out on the olympics. over the past few years. the constant. projects have been completed and. on the grid. safe. stations have given extra. capacity to believe. that the clean. is a preferred fuel for generators. one

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more news today violence is what led up. to these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today. the lead. it's almost hard road to top for any of us on here and russia have added an experimental exercise enough already unwavering 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 with 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 is

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 long before looked. it was discovered over one hundred years ago by sir william ramsey and morse travers' a novel finding certainly practical applications for the one nine hundred thirty s. when it found use in high speed flash photography and a bit later as an anesthetic in operations. a high cost prevented it from being adopted more widely in 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 xenon in russia there's no better place to look in the business for over twenty years it ships its goods all over the globe company officials placed their market share at around one quarter of total demand. for most of their history 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 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 requires sophisticated machinery and no small dose of know how. number of countries currently able to capture and put it to use for human kind. you know of. course there were only producers worldwide extracted from air but there are only five countries they produce it commercially the united states france germany russia and ukraine. is recovered as a byproduct of production it's large mental or physical factories for its plants special air separating machines 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 you know we manufacture for medical purposes. requires extra cation.

that will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent edition we also limit the share of harmful impurities in the gas our refining technology isn't paid indeed unique and allows us to remove all these. you can further be used for surgeries and all kinds of other treatments. at the end of the process they get nearly ready to be sent to clinics and hospitals under the brand name med at the moment is still rather expensive especially when compared with other and statics. proponents argue that when you take into account problems in complications associated with other knockout gases the prices come closer together before the medical xenon 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 ten as

a result the level of impurities in the medical xenon produced here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year would. new particularly using xenon as an end. as a result we're figuring out the absolutely new ways to play. this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time it is still very powerful 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. over a ten day period a group of young athletes were given a controlled dose of and had a healthy a ray of their vitals monitor said research is allowing doctors and scientists to better understand how the gas actually interacts with the body's organisms as well as working out the best way to incorporate xenon into one's workout after taking in the gas the experiments the subjects would spend a night in a controlled environment where their sleep patterns could be followed more closely . to see what the results of the experiment looked like from the athlete side of the coin we checked in on one of the inhalers our. training across the country in

complex that will host events in two thousand and fourteen in his mind the short experiment and a noticeable effect. after the experiment in the hyperbaric chamber it was much easier for me to train i was able to recover much more quickly afterwards. during the test trainings at my ski club i posted the best results. more experiments are planned for later this year but of course it will take some simple breathing sessions to get to these guys level both the first results and researchers hope that they've done their part to bring hardware back home this time next year. old to be used in professional sports. it's going to be. physicians

and hopefully they will be able to use it to help athletes get. back at the olympic park like the ice palace are already completed and starting to host their preliminary test events earlier this month the main hockey arena was packed to the gills not for any competition but to mark the start of the final countdown. of entertaining performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not a minute. much less a second to waist. deep in one county ceremony. we. will see you next time.

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