[ExI] delaware to california

[spike]

>. Is there a way to haul the ice to where it would get in an ocean current
that would carry it to California?...spike

 

 

Or failing that, perhaps there is a way to set up multiple wind turbines on
the surface of the ice, something like a smaller version of our big wind
turbines.  If the wind is blowing toward the current we want to reach, we
rotate the blades to generate power and drag, but if the wind is not blowing
that direction, we feather the blades.  Might take a year or two to get the
ice up there, but could we get to the rich people with half the original
ice?  Failing that, could we haul the ice to South America?  Are there
sufficient numbers of inventors down that way?  We never hear much about
South America.  What the heck is down there?  Is it like. Peru and Brazil
and France, such as that?

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Subject: [ExI] delaware to california

 

 

 

The Larsen C ice shelf broke off last night or late yesterday; a Delaware
sized chunk of ice is now floating.  It's an idea so obvious it must have
been studied: could we haul it to California?  Why not?  .


	
		
 


In this sketch, the red thing is a surface ship, a retired aircraft carrier
perhaps.  There is no reason why we couldn't use multiple surface ships:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have we any ocean-current hipsters?  Is there a way to haul the ice to where
it would get in an ocean current that would carry it to California?  .How
much force would it take to haul something like that at a couple hundred
meters an hour?

 

spike

 

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