Power aside, Alaska is also a difficult place to find fresh food in the winter months, which can be as cold as -50F in some areas. One of Karl’s ambitions when he first bought the resort was to turn the place into a sort of experimental workshop for renewable energy, as well as how to provide stable food supplies for an unstable world. “We’re imagineering new ways to face the growing needs for energy and food in an uncertain world,“ Karl declared in 2011. “We’re looking at new ways to observe nature and mimic the perfection biomimicry. Nature will reveal all her secrets to us, we simply have to listen.“
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