A genius engineer changed the fate of the geography in the Ladakh region of India, which is among the highest and driest cold deserts in the world and where the annual rainfall is almost negligible.
In the Himalayas, where the local people earn their living from agriculture, natural glaciers were melting rapidly due to the climate crisis and farmers were struggling with thirst in the spring, which is October. Realizing that water is not scarce in Ladakh, it just comes at the wrong time (summer), genius engineer Sonam Wangchuk rewrote the rules of nature. “ice stupa” (ice tower) project was implemented.
WATER IS TURNING INTO ICE
Behind this seemingly magical system, there actually lies a completely rational law of physics and gravity. Pipes drawn from high water streams in the mountains to the villages squirt water vertically into the sky with just the power of pressure, without the need for any engine, pump or electricity.
These water jets, which freeze in the region’s freezing winter weather of -20 degrees, layer on top of each other and turn into huge conical towers approximately 20 meters high. Because it resembles Buddhist temples “stupa” Thanks to this conical shape, the structure’s surface exposure to sunlight is kept to a minimum and premature ice melting is prevented.
WATER DOES NOT WASTED IN WINTER
Millions of liters of water that would be wasted in winter are stored as huge frozen reservoirs with this ingenious method. These towers, which slowly begin to melt in the spring months when farmers are struggling to give life to the seeds, become a vital lifeline for the agriculture of the region.
This project, which first started as a school experiment and has saved thousands of saplings and fields by producing tens of millions of liters of water, has earned its engineer prestigious international awards.
These ice towers, which challenge the climate crisis at zero cost, prove to the whole world that the best engineering is not to fight nature, but to imitate it.
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