UAE plans to drag an ICEBERG from Antarctica to provide drinking water for millions

Daily Mail ^ | 05/05/2017 | Tim Collins

[BenLurkin]

The National Advisor Bureau, headquartered in Masdar City, Abu-Dhabi, plans to source the massive blocks of ice from Heard Island, around 600 miles (1000 kilometres) off the coast of mainland Antarctica.

It will then transport them around 5,500 miles (8,800 km) to Fujairah, one of the seven emirates which make up the UAE.

One iceberg could provide enough for one million people over five years, according to the company.

And the scheme could begin as early as the start of 2018.

The firm's director says they have already travelled the transportation route and used simulators to check the feasibility of the scheme, according to reports in Gulf News.

Speaking to the site about what he is calling the UAE Iceberg Project, Abdullah Mohammad Sulaiman Al Shehi said: 'Our simulator predicts that it will take up to one year [to tow an iceberg to UAE].

'We have formulated the technical and financial plan. Towing is the best method. We will start the project in beginning of 2018.

[politicianslie]

Gee! I thought that according to Al Gore and his cronies that the ice in the Antarctic was receding. So how is there enough to drag away to be melted, anyway?

"While the Antarctic sea ice yearly wintertime maximum extent hit record highs from 2012 to 2014"

Antarctic Sea ICE reaches NEW RECORD Max in Antarctica in 2014

So NASA, please explain to the relatively low IQ peanut gallery WHY ice extent in Antarctica could be increasing when Glubull Warming is out of control? NASA has articles (in the plural) that say don't confuse that observation with proof that GLOBULLL Warming is false.

And NASA ignores the fact that one of the LARGEST ice increases in recorded history occurred in 2013 IN THE ARCTIC!

ARCTIC ice inceased in 2013

The knuckleheads posing as scientists say arctic ice decrease is due to Globull Warming but antarctic ice is due to convection. Why not the other way around? Because it would show that the liberal concept is a scam to make scam artists like Globull GORE rich.

FACTS are only to be used to show that man made GLOBULL warming must be stopped. To do that, the US economy must be seriously hurt by, for #1, shut down US coal production to make cheap electricity.

President Trump and I know GLOBULL warming is a scam, hopefully a few others are figuring that out too.

[WKUHilltopper]

Yep, old idea. One I’ve heard since the 60s in school. But if the “watering” lasts for five years, then probably worth a shot doing.

[ReaganGeneration2]

First chip away the yellow parts

[chaosagent]

I think this was in a episode of the old 70’s TV series Salvage 1...

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Actually the episodes ‘Hard Water 1 & 2’ was the two part opener for the 2nd season of Salvage 1.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Will the Somali pirates hijack the berg in transit? Hold it for a $1 billion ransom?

[wally_bert]

A similar idea was floated on the short lived Salvage 1 series.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Remember when the articles ran for multiple pages? Now an article is rarely longer than a paragraph. Computers, phones, tablets have ruined attention spans of our young peo....what was I saying?

[Palio di Siena]

Because of the global shipping slowdown, there are hundreds of unused ships - I think in Indonesia.
Send em to Antarctica - fill em with ice. Send em back to the ME.
Hey - can’t be any more ridiculous than towing an iceberg for a year.

[joshua c]

Are Antarctic glaciers fresh water?

[libstripper]

One thing UAE has in abundance is sun, making it one of the world’s few places where industrial grade solar power really works. Seems it could be cheaper and safer for them to use it for desalinization plants.

[Sacajaweau]

What if it breaks up and screws up the waterways. Chunks could blend into the horizon and then you’re scr****. Ships don’t turn on a dime.

[Sacajaweau]

But if I can make up that time.

We had ice houses years ago and we had an icebox at our house.

Build containers.

[Sacajaweau]

Except a plant has a longer life.

[Scrambler Bob]

I would think the glaciers, frozen snow and ice flowing down to the sea would be fresh.

Dad used to ask us kids if icebergs were fresh water, at the dinner table.

Would not tell the answer. We kids discussed it ,kind of.

The icebergs from glaciers would be fresh. If they are 32 deg F, they should not be able to make any salt water freeze onto their surface. In fact the salt water should cause them to melt faster. Not withstanding this school experiment with ice cubes in fresh and salt water:

https://blossoms.mit.edu/sites/default/files/video/guide/Ice-CubeMelt-Teacher-Guide.pdf

(Comments on this experiment. It ends by showing Ocean currents and mentions climate change. So there may be an agenda amongst the factual sounding text. One problem is the scale of the experiment. At room temperature in a lab with no water or air movement, the experiment would be correct. But at the poles with icebergs, the water temperature would not be ‘room temp’, 72 deg F, say, so the ‘circulation’ would not occur, the fresh melt would not float to the top of the sea water as an insulating layer, due to ocean water movement.)

The frozen sea ice should be salt. Looks like Arctic ice can be up to 15 feet thick. This is not thick enough to last on any tow trip. In Saturday afternoon cartoons, Chilly Willy did get to the Tropics on his chunk of ice, barely.

I will bet on icebergs being fresh, with some salt taste splashed on the outer surface.

[Scrambler Bob]

Well, Dang, you have done got Logical.

In only two sentences.

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So what is the real reason/hidden agenda behind this iceberg towing scheme?

[353FMG]

I heard about that plan way back in the 70’s for Saudi Arabia.

[Hot Tabasco]

Considering the ocean currents around the antarctic are warming (/s), the big bergs would probably melt before they got to their destination.......

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Wrong side of the world. They only inhabit the Arctic...

[mowowie]

i might try to look for that show on the internet and check it out again.

[Rebelbase]

“problem is that one small enough to drag that far melts before it gets there.”

Only travel at night.