S3E17 - A Climate Modeller's Truth on the Controversial Project of Iceberg Harvesting

with 🎙️ Alan Condron, Scientific Researcher and Climate Modeller at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  💧 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world's leading, independent non-profit organization dedicated to ocean research, exploration, and education. What we covered: 🍏 How Iceberg drift in oceans can be modeled and what can be learned from it  🍏 How large an Iceberg shall be upon arrival in Cape Town, to cover 20% of the city's water needs  🧮  How that Iceberg would behave all along a towing route that would lead it from Antarctica to South Africa  🍎 How challenging it would be, to harvest the Iceberg's water upon arrival  🔍 The ecological impacts of an Iceberg tow  🍎 The bigger picture around Day Zero and Water Scarcity in arid places in the world, like Cape Town  🔍 How the ecological impacts of a one-time tow are probably negligible while the consequences of a repeated commercial-scale activity would have to be studied  🍏 How a successful proof of concept would enable verifying theory and possibly build the suited infrastructure to extract the best out of the Iceberg.  🍎 How an Iceberg tow to Dubai is a different game than a southern hemisphere destination  🍏 The financial equation of an Iceberg towing project, the scientific approach that would enable us to learn from the first tow, Nick Sloane's project... and much more! 🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥  ➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/a-climate-modellers-truth-on-the-controversial-project-of-iceberg-harvesting/Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.