Kultur am Montag_Gletscher als Süsswasserspeicher? Vortrag Felix Keller

Culture on the Montag_Gletscher as a freshwater reservoir? Lecture with violin playing by Felix Keller

This presentation will address the following questions:
Can meltwater recycling make the Morteratsch glacier longer again?
Should glaciers be maintained as freshwater reservoirs for future generations?
What is the technical solution for glacier maintenance?
How do we come to action?

Since 2015, a research group from the Academia Engiadina, the University of Utrecht and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland has been working together with the municipality of Pontresina to develop a process to preserve the Morteratsch Glacier as a freshwater reservoir for future generations under warmer climate conditions by means of so-called meltwater recycling. If this project is successful, several million people worldwide in dry mountain deserts will be able to benefit from this innovation. In the summer of 2019, the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency Innosuisse approved a major development project to develop the necessary ground-independent snowmaking technology together with three other universities of applied sciences and the industrial partners Bartholet (Flums) and Bächler Top Track (Emmenbrücke), which is rope-based and works without electrical energy.

In 2019, the MortAlive project was presented at the World Rotary Convention in Hamburg, whereupon Felix Keller was invited to the World Rotary Peace Conference in Ontario (California) in January 2020.

Alpina Lodge, Tschiertschen, 8:00 p.m., CHF 15.--
Bar.
https://pro-tschiertschen-praden.ch/kultur-am-montag-2026/