The city will have a giant block of ice geoengineered in winter to ‘store’ winter temperatures, so that during the summer, the ice would help keep the city cool and watered as it melts.
Scientists hope that the process will assist in saving summer air conditioning costs, regulating drinking and irrigation supplies, and creating cool micro-climates.
Mongolian engineering firm ECOS & EMI will be drilling boreholes repeatedly throughout winter, into the ice formed on the surface of the Tuul river.
This would cause water from the bottom of the ice will discharge onto the top and freeze, creating layers of ice rinks and eventually achieving ultra-thick slabs of ice—so that they don’t melt as fast as regular ice.
[via The Guardian]
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