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Qanats & Windcatchers for Lytton BC
A civil engineering concept to help Lytton resiliently mitigate fires for generations to come…

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

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
Spider Web Space Elevator cable-pulling?
Bio-mimicry idea: Can we connect Space Elevator strands from Earth to Orbit, by mimicking the use of spiders of electric fields to execute Cable-Pulling? The idea comes from the discovery that spiders ‘fly’ using an electric field: “A study was conducted at the University of Bristol in 2018. The study said that electric field generated due to weather activity was capable of drag a single electrostatically-charged strand of web (and the spider) off the ground” https://www.wionews.com/science/spiders-fly-using-electric-field-you-are-allowed-to-be-scared-and-ask-why-461024