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means three. three. two time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free media. oh and welcome to technology update while the palm trees may not immediately screen winter olympics the clock behind me shows that time is ticking as russia sochi transforms itself from a sunny summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex. russian fact the final countdown is on. not so little reminders were placed in a smattering of the country so. the next winter olympics are fast approaching and
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with. limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. of 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. who will have to. hold whether compatriots carry the national banner into competition. and flown over to moscow 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. a limp dick and paralympic torch is built specially designed to deal with whatever the russian winter throws at it. or snow the olympic flame and ideals it represents simply won't be extinguished.
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the journey to this point started five and a half years ago when precious and plan was chosen. the olympic park and a company. amid sochi subtropical weather in an effort to make the experience more accessible for visitors all the coastal cluster will be within a ten to fifteen minute walking distance. has had to be built from scratch what you see today is completely unrecognizable from what was here just a few years ago but that's only half the story here. some fifty kilometers away. jumping sledding and other downhill competitions given the commute between the two clusters transport solutions have taken a front seat. change. train station it connects the alpine venues to everything the olympic park the airport and even moscow. the country's largest train station to increase traffic up to
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fifteen thousand people an existing track have been expanded of all the transport projects though. the mountain cluster. follows the. river up the hill roughly fifty bridges spanning almost twenty kilometers had to be built including this. bridge stretching eight hundred meters it's the first of its kind in the south of russia with eighty meter high concrete pylons opted for this design to minimize the risk of landslides. the first stop on the way to the top station for all intents and purposes just about ready for action. it will be the main. station will help some twenty thousand fans of their high altitude destination each hour.
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only heavy machinery and supplies are being tugged up and down the line. by the time two thousand and fourteen rolls around new electric. longet speeds up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour thirty minutes from bottom to top. all of the olympic projects under expert review 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. in the world. it was built from the ground. to make sure everything is working. the world's attention the technology required to create such breathtaking. just the right temperature and consistency is a major part of the task. the
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results speak for themselves. i like the track the ice is getting better every day is becoming. i think the track was designed properly. to help keep over the top speed. potentially dangerous. to make the track. and freon have been the two main ways to keep big things cool. always been valued for the relatively low cost. that's been balanced against their power series toxicity on the other hand. which actually may make for. decades. have become better known a major reason. for doesn't
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have any kind of smell. it's a heavy gas and in case of major leaks it settles down to the ground. out. there so if they are the freon leak they can experience oxygen deficiency which may result in poisoning or even death. dangerous for. the company responsible for producing. depending on the concentration of whole sections of the piping can be closed off. it's implemented these systems it would take fifteen to sixty minutes for information about
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emergencies to reach those who needed it but 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 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. to magically it's constantly running constantly doing what it's supposed to. the case of an emergency within forty seconds. is 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. and branches of the country's emergency services ministry. information from the connected sensors.
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stations like this. and another pair of. monitors. those 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 a native. of transmission power. station was built in two thousand. construction on the surrounding area it's. popping up in the area after it given the sometimes twenty degrees temps engineers house and much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid company has increased
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the number of 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. 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 given extra. capacity to.
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a joint venture between. solar power technology. and 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. on inside. edition. produce will be able to capture the whole spectrum of sunlight into energy to. allow them to harness both in. the form of some thirty percent. of course.
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close cooperation with. we do have sophisticated. scientists working on the premises of. choice when you consider that the campus has long been. an innovation new facilities have sprung up including especially for thin film energy technologies by the time. maybe in the position. secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about
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it's a more hard road to top for any of us not here in russia i 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 sports 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 his 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. was discovered over one hundred years ago by sir william ramsey and morse travers' a novel finding certainly practical applications for it were fleeting until the one
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nine hundred thirty s. when it found use in high speed flash photography and a bit later as an anesthetic an operations. 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
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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 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 then put it to use for human kind. you know if for me to portray it as of course there were only one producers worldwide extracted from air but there are only five countries
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they produce it commercially around the united states france germany russia and ukraine xenon 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 zenon for medical purposes encrypt and mixture requires extra puti cation. and they will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent when i mean additionally 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 the. entity in pure medical. they can further be used for surgeries and all kinds of other treatments. at the end of the process they get nearly
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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 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 over using xenon as in an authentic as a result we're figuring out absolutely new ways to play. this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time it is
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still a very powerful and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body depending on what the problem is with but with. 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
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a group of athletes were given. a healthy. to better understand actually interact with the organisms as well as working. after taking in the. country. in his mind. after the experiment. 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
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a decent amount of entertaining performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not a minute. much less a second to waste. to keep it one year and counting until the ceremony you. are telling you don't wait that long something you can do to get those the next time it's a joint mind. live
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