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A Dubai firm's dream of towing icebergs from the Antarctic to the Arabian Peninsula could face some titanic obstacles.
Where many see the crumbling polar ice caps as a distressing sign of global warming, the National Advisor Bureau Limited sees it as a source of profit, and a way of offsetting the effects of climate change in the increasingly sweltering Gulf.
The firm has drawn up plans to harvest icebergs in the southern Indian Ocean and tow them 9,200 kilometers (5,700 miles) away to the Gulf, where they could be melted down for freshwater and marketed as a tourist attraction.
"The icebergs are just floating in the Indian Ocean. They are up for grabs to whoever can take them," managing director Abdullah al-Shehi told The Associated Press in his Dubai office. He hopes to begin harvesting them by 2019.
[...] The firm would send ships down to Heard Island, an Australian nature reserve in the southern Indian Ocean, where they would steer between massive icebergs the size of cities in search of truck-sized chunks known as growlers. Workers would then secure them to the boats with nets and embark on a yearlong cruise to the United Arab Emirates.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:34PM (4 children)
They thought they killed it with global warming.
But now.
The iceberg is back, and it's going to chase you all the way into the Arabian Desert.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:47PM
We'll soon get a Security Council resolution prohibiting North Korea from weaponizing icebergs.
Titanic II, involving a guided iceberg and a supertanker or supercarrier, would be quite a show. They'd have to have the sex scene in a helicopter...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:13PM (1 child)
Canada and/or Greenland should take possession of all icebergs and charge them $2 per pound. Revenge for all that oil.
(Score: 2, Informative) by caffeinated bacon on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:49AM
Canada and Greenland are quite a long way from the Antarctic...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Thursday May 18 2017, @12:57AM
Problem: rapidly diminishing arctic ice
Solution: Haul massive chunks of it to the desert and melt it.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek