I think we covered this a few months ago.
Montgomery Brewster did this and made a lot of money on it.
During World War II we were going to build unsinkable aircraft carriers out of a mix of ice and wood shavings called Pykrete.
Graphene is about to cause a break through in desalinization that will render this idea meaningless.
Have they consulted with Al Gore? How about Leonardo DiCaprio - he’s another expert on Earth science.
A 7,000 foot long iceberg would be difficult to tow, and by the time it arrived in Dubai would probably fit into a styrofoam cooler.
Every few years for the past couple centuries, even before the large-scale cultivation of marijuana, this idea occurs to someone: What if we towed an iceberg from the poles, where there are no people, to some dry, populous place and then melted it into freshwater?
Good god! They’re sitting next to tons of water, and with tons of money, why not desalination?
Actually the ideas for this have been around for a long time, and are all existing technologies. First you cover the iceberg with an insulating cover, like a tarp, that reduces the melt rate. The water from the melting ice provides the impulse to move the iceberg, with some external engines to slowly direct its course. Once near its destination, tugboats take over.
Finally, you take advantage of the ocean currents when you can.
You also need a suitable dock for an iceberg, with an ice processing facility and a lined, covered freshwater lake for storage. Then pumping stations and pipelines to pump the fresh water inland.
Because about 90% of an iceberg is under water, you harvest it from the top.
A good-sized iceberg might measure 3,000 x 1,500 x 600 feet. An iceberg that size contains somewhere around 20 billion gallons of fresh water. If 1 million people each use 10 gallons of water a day, then 20 billion gallons of water would take care of the water needs of 1 million people for more than five years. For 10 million people, it would last 200 days. It really is a lot of water.
Using icebergs towed to some destination for fresh water ... the idea is decades or more old. I think Popular Science even covered it way back when maybe 40 years ago
I would like to see the tugs they intend to use. Aint gonna happen, currents and all.
Now a smaller one? Maybe.
THINK OF THE PENGUINS !!!!
So the iceberg idea will provide cold water. Where are they going to find hot water? ;)
Why not ask the world leaders in desalinization?
Israel.
Seems to me, if the Dubai-ans were not all Ishmaelites
but rather Israelites .... they would not be having the
problem. Really do feel sorry for the most wealthy nation
on Earth. I really pity the fools, because they do not yet
know how to turn Oil into water .... a real crying shame.
This problem is not on my top one hundred things to
spend time worrying about . Why don’t they just move
to Hawaii ....
Freeper? This idea has been tossed around for more than a few decades, would that make freepers guilty also? : )
“What do you do if you’re a fast-growing city in the desert with lots of thirsty people and little freshwater reserves?”
As rich a country could easily afford
desalination plants.
It is merely yet another reason to impeach President Trump!