| My home hill, Berkshire East installed a large amount of these a number of years back. They can produce a better quality snow in a wider range of temperatures (given the right operator at the controls monitoring the output!!). In addition they are more energy efficient and as stated don't require the central air compressors and lines as each gun has it's own air supply on board. In my opinion any resort expanding snowmaking in coming years will be hard pressed not to go this route.
From my understanding at Berkshire East they even got the power company to kick in some cash for the guns since they reduced energy usage significantly.
The wave of the future is upon us. I think we would all say that the quality of snow we saw at Mount Snow this year was marketable improved, probably in large part to their new fan guns.
Being a little greener can have benefits!! |