When cold air spilled into Valtellina Valley in northern Italy this April, the owners of apple orchards quickly decided to shower their trees with water to protect them. * The trees, covered in ice, survived temperatures below freezing by a freezing layer of insulation. Counterintuitive? The ambient air was colder than minus 3 degrees Celsius. Ice hovers at 0 degrees C. The myriad branches in the orchard were too numerous for LL Bean jackets, so the owners made them wear ice. In adopting the strategy, the owners saved thousands of tons of apples—I don’t know how many bushels that is, but my local grocery store sells Gala apples for about $1.99/lb, so thousands of tons of apples is bushels of money. But I digress.
If you are looking to up your creativity game or your ability to respond to challenges large and small, consider counterintuitive options. Others might criticize and doubt your actions, but you will be the one to whom they come for apples.
* https://phys.org/news/2021-04-italy-apple-trees-frozen-survive.html Accessed April 10, 2021.
If you are looking to up your creativity game or your ability to respond to challenges large and small, consider counterintuitive options. Others might criticize and doubt your actions, but you will be the one to whom they come for apples.
* https://phys.org/news/2021-04-italy-apple-trees-frozen-survive.html Accessed April 10, 2021.
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