I hope you enjoyed the video. I now have an Australia playlist: kzread.info/head/PLKtxx9TnH76RvZYpXxZlYrKVVA7S2J_rN

@BonktYT

2 жыл бұрын

GOD, HOW HARD IS IT TO NORMALIZE YOUR AUDIO TRACK??? I can barely hear you. Otherwise good content, except for your Patreon talk as it is the same words in the exact same order every video, spice it up sometime?

@davidbryden7904

2 жыл бұрын

Audio could use an upgrade, but I did enjoy this video. Growing up in Southern California during the '7th, I remember the idea being "tossed around" , but like y'all down under, desalination was considered more cost-effective. Cali is in a very similar situation, I believe, to Australia. A challenging few decades ahead of us both.

@tamarahagenbeek

2 жыл бұрын

What a crap if there is a scientist who can show us a mountain of water, please come forward hahahaha

If there was alcohol in those icebergs Australia would've done this a long time ago

@seihai-kun6726

2 жыл бұрын

Forget Australia. I'd do it myself.

@CyReVolt

2 жыл бұрын

And that's how the drunkaroo evolved, which jumps in awkward directions.

@CyReVolt

2 жыл бұрын

And the alkoala, an always hungover cutie dosing off a dozen times a day.

@drkiwihouseMD

2 жыл бұрын

let's move to Antarctica

@cheechinwong5585

2 жыл бұрын

A snowed kangaroo

I remember as a kid reading about iceberg towing in the early 90s. 30 years later and an MSc in Hydrology later, I can see this for the BS it really is: water is very heavy and, even if fresh, packs very little value. ANY transportation makes it economically unfeasible. Desalination and tapping aquifers is simply cheaper.

@unlink1649

2 жыл бұрын

What Australia needs is a ton of solar energy and desalination plants. That's cheaper and way more sustainable

@internetguy1260

2 жыл бұрын

@@unlink1649 a couple nuclear plants would probably be cheaper long term then solar.

@FlorinArjocu

2 жыл бұрын

If I am not wrong, aquifers go away for good, it is not a renewable source of water. I would expect them to bequite empty over there.

@internetguy1260

2 жыл бұрын

@@FlorinArjocu desalination should last indefinitely tho

@FlorinArjocu

2 жыл бұрын

@Rejected Alien That is the same solution, it still needs bringing them to shore.

Did Australia ever consider capturing a comet from outer space? 🤔

@carultch

2 жыл бұрын

Have you been watching Futurama?

@shalvinsharma4108

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it was later dismissed because it was totally different from playing footy. Now the plan it to produce a giant tennis bat to deflect them.

You went all out on the puns for this one lol

@Asianometry

2 жыл бұрын

If only I could do more.

@KevinLyda

2 жыл бұрын

If only you could harvest water from floods of puns.

@betula2137

Жыл бұрын

@@Asianometry But you cold more which inhibited your punny ice capabilities If only

I think the most economic and practical way of processing the iceberg would be to build a containment giant dock outside or next to the city harbor. The iceberg would simply be floated inside the dock, then the compartment gate/wall would be lifted back up and shut behind it, then the sea water would be pumped out and the dock filled with the berg's fresh water.

I went sea kayaking in a field of bergy bits. The problem of course is the bottom melts faster than the top, and it tends to want to flip over at some point.

@elye3701

2 жыл бұрын

Pity. You don't have a visionary like Boyan Slat.

The puns got an instant like from me.

I can just imagine a small army of maple syrup farmers trying to tap icebergs with little buckets hanging off the taps.

I’m just here for the New Zealand memes

As some have commented, it might be more economical to harvest the icebergs in their natural environment instead of trying to tow them thousands of miles away and do it there. Specially made tanker ships could be built for the purpose of breaking down and storing the fresh water of icebergs. I reckon it might become economical in a couple more decades when water scarcity becomes a much bigger problem.

@21simper

2 жыл бұрын

in that case just fill up at the Ord river .... you could green the whole country there is enough water there

@stevenstart8728

2 жыл бұрын

Shinning One have you been there. Lake argyle isn’t big enough to water all of Australia. That’s a dumb thing to say and you obviously have no idea.

@rimc8783

2 жыл бұрын

There's never a shortage of water on a planet with 75% surface water! Just because rain don't fall where man needs it doesn't mean there's a water shortage.

@chrisparker2118

2 жыл бұрын

We don't have a couple of decades. Ice ages are the norm and we are going back to it.

@rimc8783

2 жыл бұрын

@Andrei Salvaleon Just because it don't rain where man wants it to or needs it rain doesn't mean there a shortage of Water!

It’s cheaper to use an oil tanker to ship water from Indonesia where they have too much water. You can google numbers for this and post a video. ;) “cost to ship oil’ , you will find desalination is cheaper.

@stormtrooper9404

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite! Some islands on the Adriatic Sea get their water from mainland Croatia trough... water tankers of course! I have seen one such while on vacation there. Sure the distances to Aus are much greater, but than the tankers are ever bigger. Economy of scale! So I doubt your calculation that is cheaper to desalinate water! That maybe holds true for Dubai and similar oil reach countries, that dont give a damn about ecology and burn fosil fuels on massive scale for electricity/desalination.

@RemusKingOfRome

2 жыл бұрын

Great point Or melt icebergs insitu and tank them to Oz.

@m2heavyindustries378

2 жыл бұрын

@@stormtrooper9404 Save your enviro/greenie stuff for another video- Aus has operating desalination plants in all big cities built years ago.

Dick Smith proposed this way back in the 80s. It's insane that some people prefer to do this instead of recycling water.

@dann6067

2 жыл бұрын

Thank God for capitalism.

@RemusKingOfRome

2 жыл бұрын

You enjoy drinking other people's wee ? Give me brown ice any day, at least I know penguins are disease free.

@hoangle2483

2 жыл бұрын

@@RemusKingOfRome ever heard of water treatment plant ?

@nimernimer

2 жыл бұрын

If it’s good enough for the iss it’s good enough for me!

@scottfranco1962

2 жыл бұрын

We do it here in San Jose! come get your nice glass of recycled sewage! No takers?

I'm just here for the puns. And the science. That's cool too.

😂 at every video you make I start thinking "oh God, my man is at it it again with the puns" but a quarter of the way in I'm laughing so much, puns are your true craft, in depth and very interesting documentaries on niche and increasingly varied subjects are just your medium. Keep up the great work! Thank you

This crops up every few years. It's a joke...

@RemusKingOfRome

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, just like the fast trains the socialists love reviving each election.

If you think trying to drag an iceberg back to civilization for drinking is crazy, try doing it for purposes of creating an aircraft carrier. Project Habakkuk.

@klobiforpresident2254

2 жыл бұрын

Project Habakkuk's pykrete is an interesting material but it would have required *building* an iceberg, not just towing one.

Hello John! This is a great new flic! A great update on this subject. For the first time I can remember, I saw a cost analysis of the transport of an iceberg. I had been considering the iceberg landing problem and thought a drydock arrangement would be most advantageous. Although I find the "berg in a bag" idea quite intriguing. In all cases the resulting melt water would produce a kind of brackish water that would at worst need some de-salibation or best case need processing in a trickle sand pile. Furthermore, the water quality will vary from berg to berg. So, I agree with the deciders in Perth to go for a de-salibation plant. They would most likely need that anyway. The question of inserting a 'cold island' into an urban area is rather intriguing. That could lower power consumption for air con dramatically. I wonder if the chilling effect might be enough to fell percipitation out of moist coastal air. That might be the biggest benefit of it. However, Diesel tugboats are probably not the answer to this whole subject, as the Carbon foot print would be substantial. So, a fleet Russian atomic icebreaker tugboats might be a better solution.

@esecallum

2 жыл бұрын

Simply put large push propeller engines or windmills or sails and powered by solar panels and steer it to the port. no need for tugboats or fuel costs.

Love the new topics, your overview of topics is great👍🏽

Love you man, your videos are truly fantastic. Long live the new independent media from passionate creators!

Before that study the Arabic countries wanted to do similar, from the north ice cap. It was not done because an ice boulder is way too unstable when pulled due to melting of material, which changes the center of gravity (unpredictable).

1. Build an undersea pipeline from Antarctica to Perth. 2. Build a giant concave reflector to reflect sunlight to melt the iceberg. 3. Channel the melted water to the pipeline. 4. Use floating solar panels to power the motors inside the pipeline to pull water from the iceberg to Perth.

@RemusKingOfRome

2 жыл бұрын

(1) Hugely expensive .. end

Desalination seems like the obvious answer for a lot of places. They just need to be careful about salinity concentrations on the discharge. Spread it out more, extract less freshwater per liter of salt water, etc. This planet has so much water. It just takes energy to make it drinkable.

@OhNoNotAgain42

2 жыл бұрын

“Just” takes energy. Just? Australia gets most of its energy from coal.

@terrysummerfield5863

2 жыл бұрын

1st law of thermodynamics. Research it. There's no such thing as clean energy. Period. Good luck.

@DFPercush

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrysummerfield5863 "Clean" normally means it does not release CO2 or pollutants into the atmosphere, and there are various methods of power generation that accomplish that. What does the law of conservation of energy have to do with this? Maybe you meant "free" energy.

@terrysummerfield5863

2 жыл бұрын

@@DFPercush All energy creates heat and all energy must be mined or refined in the continued fight against nature, and without our sembients in nature, we'll all be gone. We are now in what is being called THE 6th mass EXTINCTION. Our problem of abrupt irreversible climate change is a direct result of human overshoot. Meaning that we humans cannot stop consuming the resources of planet earth. It's called WETICA DISEASE by Sitting Bull. It's a condition in which the afflicted, ( now nearly all humans) are constantly desiring to posses material things. Everything mankind makes and builds ends up in the landfill, even your so called"clean energy materials and machines. God be with you.

@OhNoNotAgain42

2 жыл бұрын

@@terrysummerfield5863 I think this issue is better understood through the Second Law of Thermodynamics. All actions increase entropy. We’re trying to improve human existence with the least amount of increase.

Colin Barnett's northern canal/pipeline was a more feasible solution. But looks like we're going with desalination.

how big of sails would you need to build on an iceberg to be able to control it?

Great content! I have one request though, could you make the volume level higher? In my noisy factory I can't hear it as well as other KZread programs.

Could you possibly mine ice off the icebergs into tanker ships?

@BC-op7rj

2 жыл бұрын

Rather than pick up massive bergs and tow them back with large risks, I think the answer is in a purpose built ship. It would have to be a monstrous 200,000 ton twin hull vessel with a deployable conveyor belt that submerges ahead of the bow to scoop little bergs onboard. It may or may not have armaments to smash down larger icebergs. It could be nuclear powered, comparable in size to two US aircraft carriers merged as a catamaran. It would have cranes to launch and recover small tugs , used to herd bergs to it for processing. Plus helicopters for surveys and crew transfers. Nuclear power would direct heating to special splicing guns used to cut down larger blocks brought aboard. By the end most ice pieces would be the size of large house bricks. When full the ship would move north away from the ice fields to meet with transport ships. These transport ship would be little different to coal or petroleum tankers. Liquid would transfer via hose and ice bricks transferred by a conveyor arm (just like coal) into the hulls of receiving ships. The harvester would also refuel at sea and then return to the field to repeat. Meanwhile the water tankers sets course for customers. Grand Terre would probably be the meeting point to transfer at sea with some shelter from rough seas. Upon reaching unloading point the cargo would be entirely liquid, having naturally melted on the long voyages. Desalination plants simply need an offshore barge to pump the contents ashore. There the plant would test for any frozen bacteria or similar issues, and resolve before distributing via existing infrastructure into local water supplies.

@Trey4x4

2 жыл бұрын

**FARTS LOUD AF** to expensive for water. Melt it onsite with solar energy and lay a pipe down to mainland.

There are huge areas of Australia which are uninhabited. These area make perfect landing areas for ice blocks launched from Antarctica using a giant trebuchet. This makes much more sense than towing icebergs. I just need a few billion dollars to make this idea a reality.

Harvesting icebergs that break off Greenland is an emerging industry in Newfoundland and Labrador. Iceberg water, sought after for its reputed purity and low mineral content, is worth the arduous labour involved to hunt, capture and crush the ice. It’s also apparently worth stealing, which is what police say happened in the hamlet of Port Union this past winter.

If the iceberg is 150m deep you are not going to get it anywhere near to land around Perth because of the continental shelf, It would have to be cut up in the open sea some distance off shore, like the far side of Rotto. Probably out of sight of land. The idea was looked at in the early 2000s, along with a pipeline from the tropical north (which gets plenty of rain in the monsoon season), and towing in bags from the north. Desalination was the cheapest option. So desalination plants were built.

Some municipalities in California considered the iceberg option towed from the Arctic.

this was so interesting, thank you for sharing

Biggest one I saw down there at around 61deg south near Heard Island was 26miles long and 30m+ high ice cliffs with the big swells putting spray way higher. Just a massive floating island in the middle of nowhere.

We used to. Breweries in Melbourne received ice from icebergs being towed up from Antarctica in late 1800s. 75% was lost in transit providing 25% to breweries

Bag option really makes sense, just capture smaller icebergs. Pump out salty water and just wait until it melts then tow it to Australia, fresh water is lighter than salty water so it should float on it's own and it would be a lot safer than towing an iceberg. However Cyprus is really close to Turkey and mediterranean is a calm sea so it would be still quite challenge..

@drpk6514

2 жыл бұрын

Why should they do that? It takes for ever to melt and its very heavy to tow. There are lots of water in the rivers of north WA and NT in Australia. Tankers can be loaded and deliver the water in a few days. Imagine if there was nuclear tankers and this would have been done for free.

I assume someone has already thought about sailing icebergs from Antartica to Australia, and it has been rejected as impractical? Certainly it would save the fuel costs, although maybe the size of the sails to overcome sea currents means it's not technically/economically feasible. Westerlies from Antartica are pretty reliable so one would think they could be harnessed. Obviously, the hazard to shipping is an issue - there will be practical limits on the manoeuvrability of a sailing iceberg, and so every other sea-going vessel would definitely have to give way in the event they encountered each other! Let's hope someone at some time is crazy enough to give it a go - it would probably be exceedingly difficult and dangerous, but heroic on a similar scale, and so wonderful to see!

@Graham_Wideman

2 жыл бұрын

Well individual icebergs become unstable as the underside melts faster than the top and they become top heavy. So for your heroic sailing idea, you'd need to take three or four icebergs and form them into a raft by bridging across them with some other icebergs....

@afriedli

2 жыл бұрын

@@Graham_Wideman It just became orders of magnitude more crazy and heroic - I love it!

@Graham_Wideman

2 жыл бұрын

@@afriedli Exactly! Although at some point it's probably easier to tow Australia to Antarctica.

@Bialy_1

2 жыл бұрын

@@afriedli "About 7/8ths of an iceberg is below the water line." so the speed of that sailing iceberg will be on the super slow side... and yea because of all the melting caused by thewarm moving water of the ocean it would be melting and changing what side is on the top...

@musaran2

2 жыл бұрын

I chuckle at the idea of a super tanker having to cede way to a "bigger fish".

One could imbed large masts with wing type sails controlled by a computer system allowing an iceberg to sail itself to a designated location. That has a lot of issues, iceberg breaking up and blocking shipping lanes, loosing the expensive equipment on the iceberg, etc. But it is a way to transport a tabular iceberg and with practice it could be reliable. It also could with enough individual sails on the iceberg allow moving very large ones over a kilometer in length/width by distributing the pressure applied to the iceberg over its entire surface. Wind gusts would have to be accounted for and sails adjust to not rip the berg apart with unequal forces in different areas. It would probably have to be slow and tedious journey, but it should work.

@allamasadi7970

2 жыл бұрын

Plus attached a propeller and rudder mechanism below the waterline

@SocialDownclimber

2 жыл бұрын

It won't work. You need a shaped keel to use sails. Even if you can find an iceberg of the right shape, the melt on the underwater part of the iceberg would cause the centre of mass of the iceberg to continually move. Eventually the iceberg would flip over and all your sails and infrastructure would be underwater, causing a total loss of the endeavour.

@fdc184

2 жыл бұрын

icebergs are buoyant bodies, they flip and rotate like a sphere every now and then

Asianometry GOLD!

Thank you for the videos/information. Sorry it took so long to become a Patron but I’m trying to support as many creators as possible. I’m grateful the KZread algorithm put you in front of me. Thanks again.

High quality content and puns. I like it!

loving the regular uploads, would it be possible to up the volume of the voice on your videos? it's really soft compared to other videos on youtube

I talked about doing this in the late 90’s from Alaska to California for the USA. Instead of towing them but use something like a water tanker. It would be much easier now in Greenland with glaciers already melting.

The audio at the start of some sentences is muted for some reason? It misses a word or two, which are present in the CC

What about having a processing ship stay by the pole harvesting and shipping the water either via pipes or tankers back to land.

As an aside. I remember for a long time ago a Norwegian firm looked at the possibility to tow a large bags of water in the ocean. To ares that needed water. I do not think it got much longer than the drawing board

The concept was proven viable on 1st April 1978 when entrepreneur Dick Smith towed an iceberg into Sydney Harbour.

Is it possible to laydown pipeline in the ocean , and pump fresh water from antarctica?

South Africa, or more specifically Cape Town, has had a similar plan to tow icebergs during times of drought to solve the water problem. It was last publicly discussed during the 2015-2018 Cape Town water crisis but was most seriously discussed during the drought in the mid-1990s. It has never been done though due to the cost of the proposed project and looks even less likely now as desalination technology gets more economical.

I recall an article on iceberg towing was part of the standardized reading comprehension testing system in the Australian elementary school system. It's such a great science fiction concept!

@tamarahagenbeek

2 жыл бұрын

Its sf indeed, mountains of water or ice don’t exist

very interesting ! What about underground waters ? Could you make a video about it ?

@SayAhh

2 жыл бұрын

it's going to run out and possibly cause other issues, e.g. quakes due to unstable ground

Taking the ice from South pole? So that it can break up faster? So that the water level can rise higher?

Ah, the puns. Nicely done, sir.

We in Dubai considered this as well. I had to independently build a business model and my costs for a round trip was only USD $30m in fuel, whilst ignoring other and fixed costs, whilst selling price would be only USD 9m - waiting for the next level of shipping (advanced wind powered ships, so no fuel costs) to become available and then this project can become live - I like the simple toothpaste tube analogy (easier to explain to funding sources)

Solution is to attach sails to bergs so wind from high altitude could be used so everything would move. Cost of transportation would be minimized and transportation would then become feasible. Picture kites anchored through bergs from top to bottom with GPS navigation.

@klobiforpresident2254

2 жыл бұрын

@@idonotconsent Heat is primarily lost in three ways. Radiation and physical transfer. This is the feeling of warmth from standing close to a fire and the cold from touching a handrail in the winter. In our case air and sea lose heat to bergs. At similar temperatures both air and sea will heat the berg roughly the same amount through radiation. Heating and cooling water takes a lot more energy than heating and cooling air. The consequence is that warm water melts ice much faster than warm air, especially if there isn't additional airflow (like in a hair dryer's exhaust). There's an easy way to test this. Prepare an oven at 100°C. Prepare a pot of not-quite boiling water. Put ice cubes into each. Which disappear first? The boiled ones, despite being in less warm of an environment. Icebergs flipping is pretty common as due to the above the melt is fairly uneven.

Hard Sail/Hydrofoil dual use devices, carve out and install self righting habitation and processing facilities. Combine a pseudo bagging systems to collect fresh/brackish melt from under and to the rear that could be further desalinated using solar optical distillation in route. Would be worth a few tens of millions to explore, no limitations on size of the target either.

@johnl.7754

2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same thing…like what they thought about using in space.

Question - in the process of "bagging" an iceberg saltwater would be introduced into said "bag" - wouldn't this have to be pumped out so the meltwater isn't mixed with saltwater and the whole enterprise come to nothing?

Great show.In Melbourne we get a lot of rain.

I think it’s a fun idea. Should be easy enough to tow OR push with TUGS attached to the rear. You would have to make the icerbwrg bow hydrodynamic.

That was a good one ! I liked the joke. Well written and well executed.

How about putting huge sails on the burgs to move them and use the tugs to more or less just steer?

larry niven and jerry pournelle suggested this back in the 80's. Except the destination was San Diego, California. Still a good idea

Excellent dry delivery of juicy puns. 🤦‍♀️🤩😆

Doesn't ice preserve old pathogens in good condition? Would melting the water require treatment afterwards?

@thelastofthehitachi972

2 жыл бұрын

on the contrary icebergs pieces are good quality for drinking kzread.info/dash/bejne/apmoqZZuotnPnbg.html

This idea was mentioned in the news on swedish TV back in november 1976. Since then I have been wondering what became out of it-now I know!

A California company owned by Gov. Newcomb's brother was paid $31 billion to get iceberg water to Los Angeles. The company does it by letting icebergs melt into the sea in the arctic and selling sea water pumped from the Long Beach area to the State, which is treated at the Carlsberg, CA desalination plant.

@andybaldman

2 жыл бұрын

Got a source for that, buddy?

@kangkim150

2 жыл бұрын

There’s no place called Carlsberg in California.

Yse 1 tanker ship, the size of those huge container ship. Have retractable pipes with drill bit at the end, drill bits have heating elements. Park the ship next to square iceberg. Stretch out multiple retractable pipes. Sink the drill end into the berg. Start drilling in, as it drills you switch on the heating elements. As that spot starts melting, you suck up the melting pieces and water into the tanker. Detach, pack up and leave once your tanks are full. Set sail back to harbour to off load your water load into land water storage tanks. If one were to have a fleet of say 10 ships, water can be harvested and stored easily from that iceberg. Ships can work in a relay formation where 3 to 4 ships latch onto the iceberg at a time. No need to tow that iceberg and worring where to park it when it gets to port.

My knowledge of physics is limited, but I think most likely it wouldn't be a good idea to tow these icebergs out of the antarctic ocean. They are at a lower temperature than the surrounding water, so they're still contributing to keep the area cooler, thus preventing other chunks of ice separating from Antarctica. In essence, you'd be accelerating ice cap melting and global warming.

So was cutting-up the bergs in-situ and hauling the blocks like cargo never investigated? Less water loss, eliminates the issues of bergs changing size/shape, and boat hulls have got to be more efficient to push through the water than an entire iceberg.

Interesting always wondered if it was possible.

Oh, could these bags be built as underwater pipelines? I thought of collecting water from the Columbia river and pumping south to San Francisco to add to Los Angeles water supply, maybe some river in East Australia?

Use oil tankers to bring water from North rivers of Western Australia and Northern territory to Perth and other cities.

Great vids 🤟

I think it make more sense to just tow huge hydrodynamic bags of fresh water pumped in from river outflows than to tow and process an iceberg. Maybe just park an oil tanker where a large river flows into the sea and pump it full, etc

Why not send tankers to the iceberg and get the water in situ?

I wonder if something like this might work for the eastern seaboard of North America, with icebergs sourced from Greenland. The ocean currents are in the right direction, at least up to around 40N. In the distant past, there is evidence of icebergs making it all the way to Florida (the bottom of icebergs scar the ocean floor). Of course, the eastern seaboard may not need the water in the first place.

its would be a cheaper way to process the iceberg at Antarctic and use a oil tanker style ship, use would a giant ice grinding machine like a snow plow would extend out and just grind down the iceberg. The ship and hull would need to be heated to melt the ice and keep in a liquid form better if the ship was nuclear powdered. what do you think.

I had an idea to tow one to Singapore for Winter Olympics 🤔

Could the bergs be bagged and then topped with solar panels that could then power electric motors that could propel the berg itself to its destination?

@aniksamiurrahman6365

2 жыл бұрын

Probably no. In one hand, the solar panels won't generate enough power, on the other hand, the iceberg will melt, crack and flip during the voyage, destroying the solar array mid-journey. But some solar panels might be put there for additional power.

@kangkim150

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re at a point of desperation of bagging ice then why not pump sea water into the desert and collect the steam.

I wonder how much salt water is distilled in the process of extracting sea salt for commercial uses. Those are two industries that could be fused into one. You just have to capture the water vapor from the salt ponds as it evaporates.

Has anyone thought of towing them further inland where they wont... well... melt? I mean once you've watered your front lawn with what's left of Antarctica, then what.

I remember hearing about another project about capturing morning dew in the desert with little mass produced gizmos. They would capture just enough water for some shrubbery to thrive. Not enough for real farming, but it would help to prevent erosion.

This reminds me of that short film within Futurama: None Like It Hot.

Attach sails and stepper motors and use the h100 and calculate were it will go.

Drage the ice to the coast , put bag under it with air floats around top of bag . Pump up the air floats in casing the ice. Pump seawater out ,then as the ice melts pump out the fresh water

Consider buying a new oil tanker but using it just for water. Imagine sailing to a large fresh water river (Amazon, Mississippi), going a few miles upstream to avoid tides, pumping the tanks full of water, adding chlorine to stop algae growth, then travelling to port and pumping the water out. Is that going to make sense? The bags of water might help some. Now, lets consider fishing trawlers spreading a huge net, with floats on the edge. But for water collection without towing, you need a plastic cover on the net, and plastic pipes to the edges. Once you have the iceberg surrounded. You pull the cable through the floats so the floats encircle the iceberg. Pump out the trapped seawater so the membrane surrounds the bottom surface. Capture the water once the salinity is low enough, it will continue to drop as the ice melts. Start towing toward destination, while the tankers pick up the melted water in tanks and bags and deliver asap.

Great job!! Would like to see videos of quantum technology, thanks

Moving icebergs to areas in Australia would be a monumental task. It is much easier to desalinate sea water . The problem of course is the production of brine which would cause serious environmental problems especially if done on a large scale. Another suggestion - after desalination transport the concentrated brine or salt to Antarctica. Mine the icebergs for fresh water and dilute the brine until it has the same salt concentration as seawater and then release it. The large container ships that transport the brine can return with freshwater to Australia.

Before refrigerators and freezers many big cities would cut block of ice from fresh water lakes. And store the ice blocks to be used in the summer.

It would be cool to be able to tow these into a dry dock somehow. It would be much easier to process there I would think.

Desalinization os no longer an option?

This video is absolutely puntastic!

Stick the semiconductor fab in Antartica!

I must be getting old! I recall Australian Businessman Disk Smith having a little fun with the idea by towing a mocked-up iceberg into Sydney Harbour in 1978 as an April Fool's prank. Corney, but it did get everyone talking about it for a while.

Ice bergs in the polar caps help to keep the polar caps cold. If you took them away, the polar caps would melt even faster, which is unaccetable.

Just transfer the iceberg bags into a giant warehouse, it would be transferred via drydock or carried by a crane onto an overload truck that's designed to carry windmill "arm" or fan. You can install a pipeline under or at the tip of the icebag and get a vacuum to suck out all of the water.

Use warm seawater to melt the ice on site, then put the meltwater in supertankers. A big water pump and radiator should do the trick.

Why tow iceberg use outboard motor for power and FU46

I always find this puzzling, why dont they just harvest it right there and then? I mean, melt the ice into water and store it in a large 'oil tanker' like ship. if melting cost to much energy, just break it into smaller pieces and store it in a huge 'oil tanker' and it will melt eventually.

Love to see Perth in a video!

Your pun game is on point.