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Ice-making submarine would pop out bergs to help fight climate change
- MR4D 7y agoAnd in other news, I invented a new perpetual motion machine to sell you! I think we just hit peak climate change. Sad.
- jobigoud 7y agoI'm not sure about the idea but it doesn't strike me as stupid as a perpetual motion machine. An iceberg has part of the water it's displacing above the water level, so transforming a given volume of water into one should lower the overall line even without carrying it on land... Also the iceberg is white and won't absorb heat as much as the raw ocean. It's not clear to me if it's possible to create this machine using less energy that it's offsetting by the albedo change.
- MR4D 7y agoDisplacement doesn’t work like that at all.
- simonblack 7y agoFreezing some water makes the rest of the water hotter. And that's apart from the energy wasted in running the freezer's machinery. But go ahead. Get back to me in 10 years and let me know how well you've done.