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Artificial glaciers

posted by Jason Kottke   Oct 28, 2009

To combat receding Himalayan glaciers caused by man-made climate change, Indian Chhewang Norphel has been building his own glaciers.

Here, Norphel is using what is abundant โ€” stone โ€” to conserve what is precious โ€” water. The idea is simple: Divert the unneeded autumn and winter runoff into a series of large, rock-lined holding ponds. As the days grow colder, the ponds freeze and interconnect into a growing glacier. He has built 10 glaciers across the region. His largest stretched more than a mile before an unusual week of rain wiped it out in 2006.

Norphel says that a good artificial glacier costs about $50,000.

The Swiss are putting a blanket on

posted by Jason Kottke   May 12, 2005

The Swiss are putting a blanket on one of their glaciers to keep it from melting.