Posted on 07/06/2018 7:57:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Sloane suggests wrapping the iceberg in a textile insulation skirt to stop it melting and using a supertanker and two tugboats to drag it 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) toward Cape Town using prevailing ocean currents.
The iceberg... would be about one kilometer in length, 500 meters across and up to 250 meters deep, with a flat, tabletop surface.
Melted water could be gathered each day using collection channels and a milling machine to create ice slurry — producing 150 million liters of usable water every day for a year.
[Sloane] has a reputation for taking on the impossible after he refloated the giant Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized in 2012 off the Tuscan island of Giglio, killing 32 people — one of the world’s largest and most complex maritime salvage operations.
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“At this stage it appears to us that in fact the groundwater or desalination options are cheaper or at least equal cost price,” said Cape Town’s deputy mayor, Ian Neilson.
There are also questions on how the water from the iceberg will be channeled into the city’s distribution system.
Another problem is that there is no guarantee that by the time the iceberg is hauled to Cape Town, it will still be able to produce the promised volumes of water. Sloane’s plan is to tow the giant iceberg some 150 km further north to South Africa’s St. Helena Bay, where the cold Benguela Current keeps water at around zero degrees Celsius.
Once there, the iceberg could be anchored in an old submarine channel, suggests Sloane.
As the iceberg melts, water will be collected each day, pumped into tankers and driven to Cape Town. “It won’t sort out Cape Town’s crisis, (but) it will be about 20 to 30 percent of their annual needs,”
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
See Kaulifornia.
Capetown is not one of those cities that is focused on the well-being of humanity.
In other words, it’s a sh!thole.
Imagine towing an iceberg to haiti. They would only spray paint it and poop on it. And maybe rape it.
Just kill more Whites and take their money to buy water.
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Maybe they can buy water from Israel.
Too many things can go wrong. Bad idea. However, if the future is wetter climate there’s no further expense.
Desalination plants must discharge brine back into the ocean, an environmental concern, so there’s that risk. Once built the marginal cost of effluent is cheapest, but if it rains the plant is shut, and capital needs repayment.
““At this stage it appears to us that in fact the groundwater or desalination options are cheaper or at least equal cost price,” said Cape Town’s deputy mayor, Ian Neilson.”
Too bad you told the Israelis to go jump in a lake.
Die of thirst you anti Semitic piece of crap.”
How about informing yourself before you make such posts?
Ian Neilson did not reject Israeli help. It was the ANC Government which did that. This is the same ANC Government which is responsible for the bulk water supplies to the provinces, in this case, the only province which is not controlled by the ANC.
If it involves white people, those white people might want to reconsider some things.....
There is no such technology! The Jooos just steal the clouds of Allah's chosen republic! The snow too! /s
I am an expat RSA American citizen. I dated a red head Semite for a couple of years in college. The things that girl would do would curl your hair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yDarQW7UZc
“I dated a red head Semite for a couple of years in college.”
I’ve had a similar experience. There was no way it would go beyond the, how shall I put it, Fun Zone stage because I’m not Jewish. That being said the Fun Zone was hella fun.
Best,
L
Who and how does one apply the underside of the ‘diaper’ to the ice burg in near-freezing waters, in a sea that is seldom calm? Is the diaper cost more that the water is worth?
You do know that the Amazon has fish, dead animals, debris, and huge volumes of soil and commingled salt water that have to be filtered out before the water is somehow purified and before it is stored on the ship you propose?
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