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Huge icebergs could be towed from Antarctica to Cape Town to solve South African drought crisis
The Mirror Newspaper ^ | 04-30-2018 | Anna Verdon

Posted on 04/30/2018 4:15:31 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood

Huge icebergs could be towed from Antarctica to Cape Town in a bid to solve South Africa's worst drought in a century.

Marine salvage experts are floating the plan to tug the icebergs to the region after its seen the worst water shortage in decades.

Salvage master Nick Sloane told Reuters news agency he was looking for government and private investors for a scheme to guide huge chunks of ice across the ocean, chop them into a slurry and melt them down into millions of litres of drinking water.

"We want to show that if there is no other source to solve the water crisis, we have another idea no one else has thought of yet," said Sloane, who led the refloating of the capsized Italian passenger liner Costa Concordia in 2014.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antarctica; brewstersmillions; capetown; costaconcordia; drought; humor; icebergs; karma; nicksloane; southafrica; water
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To: Captain Peter Blood

If we take all the ice from the polar caps, what will globull warming use to raise the sea levels?


21 posted on 04/30/2018 4:53:27 PM PDT by umgud
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To: TheBattman

The fact that they would have to get the tech from the Israelis.


22 posted on 04/30/2018 4:58:36 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: TheBattman

Nothing.


23 posted on 04/30/2018 5:06:18 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: TN4Liberty

You don’t pull. you drop in those super diesels in the rear and steer it.


24 posted on 04/30/2018 5:07:25 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: TheBattman
Desalinization installations not only need to be built, but also maintained. Once the ANC chases out or murders all the "tech knowledge" in South Africa, who will run the plants? We're talking a true idiocracy, there.

The Boers made a point of undereducating the majority, and when they leave, they will take all the technically trained talent with them.

Remember, the vast majority of the population believes they can cure AIDS by raping a baby and that the bones of albinos contain gold...

25 posted on 04/30/2018 5:29:36 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Perhaps they could, but the much more wealthy gulf states looked into that prospect over 30 years ago and gave it the thumbs down.

Israel offered the S Africans help, and they turned it down.

What will happen instead is, people will be going crazy with thirst, probably nothing more serious than that, but the left wing partisan media shills and the good friends the left wing scum of the Earth will be blaming President Trump because he won’t do anything about (imaginary) AGW.


26 posted on 04/30/2018 5:37:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Any reason why they can't invest in desalinators? The country is surrounded on three sides by the OCEAN. Salt water can be converted to pure drinking water using desalinator membranes. I know it works extremely well for boaters. Some friends had one on their boat that could make 400 gallons a day of highly potable (surgical grade) water from sea water. Aren't there any large scale Reverse Osmosis Systems for cases like this?
27 posted on 04/30/2018 5:45:25 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I remember that. Towing an iceberg. Something about ending up with a dangling tow line once it reached it’s destination.


28 posted on 04/30/2018 5:48:52 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
I'd love to see it tried, but can't imagine the net result per berg would amount to more than a very small lake / huge pond, but not enough to end a drought. Transit time would be months. Towing the biggest berg....I can't imagine what's needed unless it's with the currents. S Africa and the closest piece of Antartica are not that far apart, so there's that.

What's the plan...."chop it into a slurry" ? This sounds like a challenge for what's his name.....Mr. Space X.

29 posted on 04/30/2018 5:50:36 PM PDT by chiller (If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“Brewster’s Millions” is exactly what came to mind!


30 posted on 04/30/2018 5:51:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

With all the supertankers sitting idle, just take one to Sitka Alaska and fill it up.

They already have the ‘filling ststion’


31 posted on 04/30/2018 5:53:43 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Salvage-1 Scene from Hard Water Starring Andy Griffith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaQlTSAA_gs

Salvage 1 - 2x01 - Hard Water, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S05jJCN46c

Salvage 1 - 2x02 - Hard Water, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSbMO71e4N0
32 posted on 04/30/2018 5:55:45 PM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (Back where the woodbine twineth via Q... || President Trump 2020 KAG! :) MAGA!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

They should just get it from Wakanda...


33 posted on 04/30/2018 6:03:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: jonascord
"The Boers made a point of undereducating the majority, and when they leave, they will take all the technically trained talent with them."

Under educating? Was Whitey keeping them down, or were they already down?

Don't worry, these guys have it...


34 posted on 04/30/2018 6:12:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Autonomous User

A Labyrinth reference, nice.


35 posted on 04/30/2018 6:12:33 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Captain Peter Blood

But what about those poor polar bears?


36 posted on 04/30/2018 6:23:28 PM PDT by TonyM (UPS)
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To: Gen.Blather

How much does it cost to build a desalination plant?
It depends on several factors including source water, location, treatment process, and the size of the plant. Building a brackish water desalination plant usually costs less than that of a seawater desalination plant because brackish water is generally cleaner and contains less total dissolved salts (see Question 2, above). In 2007, $87 million was spent to build the Kay Bailey Hutchison brackish groundwater desalination plant in Texas. Design capacity of the KBH plant is 27.5 million gallons per day (MGD). The 2010 biennial report on seawater desalination projected that it will cost approximately $32 million to build a 2.5 MGD seawater desalination plant, and approximately $658 million to build a 100 MGD seawater desalination plant in Texas.

Additional information on the cost of desalination plants in Texas is available at Cost of Desalination in Texas

http://www.twdb.texas.gov/innovativewater/desal/faq.asp#title-07


37 posted on 04/30/2018 6:32:44 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

This is truly brilliantly hysterical.

Here I am thinking “why has no one thought of this before?”

But they have, indeed they have!


38 posted on 04/30/2018 6:35:20 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Captain Peter Blood

This must be the 30th time that the suggestion to tow an iceberg to some location to alleviate a water shortage has been made but the number of successful times that it has been accomplished to date is equal Alec Baldwin’s IQ.


39 posted on 04/30/2018 7:02:10 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: CondorFlight

“They’ve already proven that by allowing the water crisis to get as bad as it is, and by spurning Israeli offers of help.”

You’re 110% correct. South Africa is run by 50 IQ commie apes who can’t figure out how to operate a water plant.


40 posted on 04/30/2018 7:03:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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