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It is a great challange to make a design for project Sunglacier. I investigated the idea of splitting up the solar surface in 7 parts. These parts can symbolise the leaves of a forest. Each part with leaves represents a water molecule ( H2O ) The O part I is used as leave, the 2 H […]

General Questions 1.  Which climate facts do we have to cope with in a desert environment?2.  Can we find enough water and where can we find it?3.  How can we generate enough frigidity [freezing capacity] in order to create ice and sustain an adequate volume of it?4.  How much energy do we need for this purpose and how

We start the first blog this year by a short return to project cool(E)motion. Bruce Parry visited Uummannaq while our iceberg with sculptures was grounded just before the island. Picture: Bruce wearing shades designed by Ap to promote Uummannaq Polar Institute. Maybe a glimpse of the sculptures in the documentary? Our Arctic Inuit Expert Ole Jorgen Hammeken adviced  Bruce and his team for their trip to

Yesterday we discussed with prof. Wubbo Ockels the technical challenge to build a glacier in the desert. As an example we showed him the sculpture ‘Nomad’.  

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Jan Alkemade, our technical engineer, made a graphic animation about the technical challange of the project. As you can see, even an enigineer can get inspired by Christmas.

Have a look at http://www.animatedengines.com/vstirling.shtml

Frank van der Heijden, refrigeration engineer, Director of Cofely Experts BV, joined us yesterday for dinner. It seems that our project, to build a glacier in the desert, pushes many technological boundaries. Our first idea to design some shapes, cover them with solar cells and build in an ‘ice machine’, seems a bit too optimistic.

‘It’s in Netherlands colder than in Greenland’ a quote from Ole Jorgen Hammeken, just arrived from Greenland, posted by Ap on Facebook, got the headlines next day. ( See link )

This sculpture is an abstraction of a Touareg’s desert dress inspired on http://www.thewaterchannel.org/