Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
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Re: Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
#2The Minnesota versions of those are the places they dump snow cleared from roads. Some of them last into July. Somebody should tell these guys to add a nice insulating layer of dirt.
https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/06/despite-heat-snow-...
Re: Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
#3The Minnesota versions of those are the places they dump snow cleared from roads. Some of them last into July. Somebody should tell these guys to add a nice insulating layer of dirt. https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/06/despite-heat-snow-...
Why don't you mail the guy? or message him on facebook.
Re: Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
#4A nice example how some clever engineering which doesn't require many resources can improve the living conditions a lot. After all, human civilization really took off with early irrigation technologies. Climate change already today means, that the living conditions all through the world are changing.
While fighting climate change itself should be the global top priority, projects like this are so important to deal with the already existing consequences - and give hope that with more work like this we can at least compensate for some of the changes.
Re: Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
#5The Minnesota versions of those are the places they dump snow cleared from roads. Some of them last into July. Somebody should tell these guys to add a nice insulating layer of dirt. https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/06/despite-heat-snow-...
It's something they could store underground to help refrigeration in summer for e.g. public buildings. Actually that (= storing ice in winter in a basement) is how refrigeration was often done before the invention of the refrigerator / freezer.
Re: Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
#6The Minnesota versions of those are the places they dump snow cleared from roads. Some of them last into July. Somebody should tell these guys to add a nice insulating layer of dirt. https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/06/despite-heat-snow-...
Its how the local hospital here is cooled during the summer.
Large pile of snow which is covered in wood chips.
Apparently it generated 1345,3 MWh cooling energy in 2002..
Re: Can ice structures solve a Himalayan water crisis?
#7The Minnesota versions of those are the places they dump snow cleared from roads. Some of them last into July. Somebody should tell these guys to add a nice insulating layer of dirt. https://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2017/06/despite-heat-snow-...
Its how the local hospital here is cooled during the summer. Large pile of snow which is covered in wood chips. Apparently it generated 1345,3 MWh cooling energy in 2002.. http://www.snowpower.se/sundsvalls-kylanlaggning_en.asp
Wow, that's pretty cool.
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#8This seems similar to something they do in India but just with water. They trap the water in the rainy seasons in ways that let it seep into the ground. The tech just involves piles of mud.
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#10Reminds me of the Yakhchāl I've visited in Yazd, Iran. They used to sell ice from those in the summer to traders travelling the Silk Road.