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well into the future to the finish as world class athletes descend on sochi olympic venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestion battling infrastructure digs deep hard to get thousands where they need to be it's a building fueled by clean energy while research is pretty new life into gold medal dreams the race is on. the contrary.
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oh and welcome to technology update while the. screen winter olympics the clock behind me shows that time is ticking. summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex. countdown is on.
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the country. the next winter olympics are fast approaching and that it's time for the final push. unveiling of official uniforms for the games really. everyone since. each host country has tried to. design. it was transported under the great barrier reef before the two thousand.
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of the shape. a total of one point eight kilograms. i propane tucked inside the system for which it was designed by rocket engine maker machinist rate 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
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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 flag will likely include summer olympians who 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 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 at it rain wind or snow the olympic flame and ideals it represents simply won't be
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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 in an effort to make the.
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the first.
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time. all of the olympic projects. to make sure that they don't unnecessarily threaten the environment or spectators. off in the distance russian technology is being used for that very purpose. the longest track in the world. in the whole of russia all of. 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 often overlooked giving ice at just the right temperature and consistency is a major part of the task.
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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 safety on and around 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 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 freon leaks more difficult to spot it uses waned in recent decades as its qualities have become better known
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a major reason and so she opted. for 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 in 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 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 the system it would take fifteen to sixteen minutes for information about emergencies to reach
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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 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. to 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 branches of the country's emergency services ministry.
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information from the connected. 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. or the ongoing construction and coming influx of sports mad. power grid was in need of much more. transmission. substation was built in two thousand and. techniques. of 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 house and much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid
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company has increased the number of mountain substations many times the. transformers are already hooked in and deliver the right voltage to the mountain venue 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. constant. and. safe. stations have to give an extra. capacity to.
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a joint venture between. solar power technology. draw on improvements made. in the past decade the new head. which are able to harness. between one hundred twenty five and one hundred fifty five such panels could eventually have. panels. the first. layer of silicone inside. edition. producer will be able to capture the whole spectrum of sunlight into energy to. allow them to harness both in. the form and some thirty percent. of course. very
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by train you. may be miracles. live.
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it's almost hard road to time for any of us on here in russia i have added an experimental exercise enough already and we 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 over 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 and operations. from being adopted by the
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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 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 than a kellet in the business for over twenty years it ships its goods all over the
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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 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 exist 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 then put it to use for humankind. you know or for me to portray it as of course there were only human producers worldwide extracted from air but it's only when there are only five countries they produce it commercially like the united states france germany russia and ukraine. is recovered as
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a byproduct of oxygen 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 mix of those two gases is then shipped to us for further refining which we manufacture zenon for medical purposes encrypt and mixture requires extra puti cation. the purity of the z. and they will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent when i mean initially we also limit the share of harmful impurities in the gas oh yes you are refining isn't paid indeed unique and allows us to remove all the. entity in pure medical. it can further be used to pursue juries 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
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expensive especially when compared with other and statics. proponents argue that when you take into account problems and complications associated with other knockout gases the prices come closer together but 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 level of impurities in the medical xenon produced here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year we discover new particularly using xenon as in an authentic 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 a very powerful and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body that
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pending the problem is. medical xenon has many potential applications researchers here are specifically interested in how we 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 unimproved he's a functional capacities with this experiment we're trying to see just how xenon can help. period a group of athletes were given. a healthy.
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to better understand actually interacts with the body's organisms as well as working out the best way to. work out after taking in the gas. in a controlled environment. more closely. to see what the results. like from the athlete. training. country in. fourteen in his mind. after the experiment. 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.
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it will take some simple breathing sessions to get to these guys level. 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 hopefully they will be able to use it to help athletes get. back at the olympic park. 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. performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not a minute. much less
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