(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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


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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 🔥 


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