The International Arctic Station "Snowflake" is a year-round and fully autonomous complex created on the basis of renewable energy sources and hydrogen energy, without diesel fuel.
"Snowflake" will use the energy of hydrogen, wind and the sun.
Russia has inaugurated the North Pole-2015, a new scientific drifting station designed to maintain the presence of Russian researchers in the Arctic Ocean for months.
The start of work for some 20 researchers onboard the drifting ice block signals the arrival of Russian scientific research in the region again.
Russia has had floating research stations in the Arctic since 1937. The last station in the High North, North Pole-40, had to be evacuated in May 2013 because the ice floe started to break apart.
Less than two weeks ago, Russian paratroopers successfully landed on a drifting block of ice in the Arctic Ocean for the first time in history, Russia's Defense Ministry reported. The troopers also carried freight containers to set up base in direct proximity to the North Pole.
Source: http://rt.com/news/250969-russian-arctic-station-research/
