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Geo-Engineering Concepts for Arctic Re-freezing
I’d been thinking for months about ideas to create Arctic refreezing mechanisms. In June 2022, after reading about Sir David Attenborough’s “refreezing the Arctic” project at the Centre for Climate Repair at U.Cambridge, sent the Proximity of Desire framework (link to “B”); and then, after asking whether there was interest, sending the concepts.
Here is the concepts note sent to U.Cambridge [link].
Qanats & Windcatchers for Lytton BC
A civil engineering concept to help Lytton resiliently mitigate fires for generations to come…
![](https://davehuer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/lytton-fire-2021-global-news-image-300x194.png)
1page PDF: [Link] = (A) Local natural resources + (B) Combining civil engineering technologies + (C) new civil infrastructure administrative framework,
A) (See PDF)
B) Civil Engineering Idea
Combine Lytton’s location architecture + two ancient technologies into a system to create a local “cooling bubble”:
- Water sources (currently the Thompson R. and Fraser R. (in future, perhaps aquifers and springs?)
- Moisture-Sourcing subsurface “Qanats” [underground aqueducts, known as Qanats in the Middle East and as “Puquios” in the coastal deserts of southern Peru and northern Chile);
- Natural wind and heat-activated Air-Cooling “Windcatchers”):
C) Fire Protection Infrastructure Idea
![](https://davehuer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cooling-bubble-186x300.png)
Notes:
- Inside Qanat: Naeinsun, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Insideqanat.JPG
- Puquios in Peru: Ab5602, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puquios_aqueduct_Nazca_Peru.JPG
- Windcatcher Diagram: Fred the Oyster, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malqaf.svg