How to use Antarctic glaciers to solve Saudi Arabia's water shortage problem

It is feasible to solve their water shortage with Antarctic icebergs in a short time. They did it. But this method is not desirable in the long run. The impact on the earth's environment cannot be ignored. Because this is equivalent to artificially accelerating the melting of Antarctic glaciers. It will have a far-reaching impact on the global ocean and climate. Therefore, many international environmental organizations have severely criticized this. Greenpeace also sent ships to intercept it. If we really want to implement it, we must choose the most economical route. First, it must pass through the west coast of Australia, where the cold current in Western Australia can help the ship move northward. After passing through Indonesia, it will reach the southern waters of the Bay of Bengal. In summer, the sea area is full of monsoon current to the west, and the strong southeast trade wind will also save more energy for ships! After that, we went to the Arabian Sea, directly along the Iranian coast, and entered from the Strait of Hormuz, the "oil gate". There was a density flow from the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf, and it was smooth again, passing through the Persian Gulf to Saudi Arabia!

Some scientists put forward the idea of transporting water in the form of icebergs. They even came up with several possible plans to transport icebergs weighing 100 tons from Antarctica to Saudi Arabia. Considering the current level of science and technology, icebergs can be transported by the following three schemes:

1. in liquid form: but it takes a lot of money to melt the iceberg;

2. The form of small ice cubes: Although this will save a lot of money, the investment spent on various equipment will definitely increase;

3. In the form of large ice cubes: Although this method has less capital investment, it may cause many serious loading problems.

Because the capital investment of these three ways is very large, the cost of transporting icebergs is particularly high no matter which way is adopted. At present, the technical level of operation and transportation equipment does not have the conditions to carry such heavy objects with high density and large area. At the same time, areas with icebergs (Antarctica and Greenland) are not suitable for operating these heavy equipment and machines. In addition, there are no ships on the earth that can undertake the task of transporting this giant ice.

Is his method possible?

This is the engineer Hamid? Why did Christopher propose a new plan to transport icebergs? The plan fully considers various factors such as iceberg treatment methods, tools, ship construction and transportation methods. All these suggestions were patented. More importantly, compared with the production cost of nuclear desalination plant, the cost of high-quality purified water involved in this scheme is reduced. The cost of producing 1 liter of water in a modern desalination plant in the United States is $6, while using Kharidov's technology, it only takes 1 cent to melt 1 liter of iceberg water.