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Yesterday we celebrated the official start of The SunGlacier Promotion Tour. Journalist Maarten Westerveen interviewed me in an improvised VPRO studio at the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam. Next presentation will be Friday, 3rd of June, Toronto, Canada.

Next Sunday, Amsterdam, 17:10 on VPRO Vrij Denken Festival Next week updates from Toronto & New York

Yesterday we had a meeting with Jan, Rob (left) & Erik (right).  The technical simulation, is working with astonishing results. Some parts of the model have to be tested in a couple of weeks and others have to be checked in efficiency. As a technical outsider I only can conclude that making water or ice in a warm and dry desert

A world of extremes. While walking over the sea-ice, looking at one of worlds largest glaciers: The Greenlandic Icecap, I often thought: ‘What if I could see a Fata Morgana and experience a desert with extreme heat?’ I am sure the opposite, our new project SunGlacier: Entering the Arctic World in an extremely warm desert would cause the same excitement.

The story in pictures: Uummannaq, North West Greenland. People were lining up the dogsled teams for a race starting from Uummannaq Dogs are waiting for the race Hessel ( film and photography ) got caught in a spring breeze The race starts The teams are running over the froozen sea  People from Uummannaq on the ice

The film team: Ap, Hessel and Svebor are on their way to Uummannaq, North-West Greenland. They film the last shots for a documentary film about project cool(E)motion, and the first shots for a documentary film about project SunGlacier. Updates next week on: https://www.sunglacier.com/

http://publicity-sunglacier.blogspot.com/Our favourite is the Mexican TV-item. They make a real show!

Probably end of next week we know more about how our system will work. As an artist it is great to experience that art and science have more connections. Both need a lot of creativity. Even more as I could expect before we started this project. Next picture shows the latest ideas to produce ice from air. We will keep you up

To fine tune the technical components of project SunGlacier we need climate data from desert areas around the world. We need 365days/year, 24 hours logs of temperature, humidity, wind speed, solar activity and rainfall.Who can help us? Great if you could send us data or suggestions how we can get them. Please send to: apverheggen@gmail.com Thank you very much!

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