SunGlacier Aspires To Deep Freeze The Desert : Discovery News | Science News | Scoop.it
A giant dune-spanning, solar-powered leaf could turn even the most parched desert outpost into a fertile oasis of ice.

The concept (and the above image) certainly seems like a scene Salvador Dali would have painted, however, this is no surrealist figment of the imagination. It's an actual project called SunGlacier that Dutch artist, Ap Verheggen, has hatched with Cofely Refrigeration to make the impossible possible.