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Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by wanderingmagus@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 57 points 10 months ago

While ridiculous, there's interesting context here.

Greenland has little to no economy
The ice is mined from ice that has already broken away from the glacier, thus not reducing any more than nature has already
Cargo ships bringing frozen food used to leave empty, now that same fuel is used to transport ice back instead of going to waste
The founder has always dreamed of a sustainable economy for Greenland
He is conflicted about how his work to do this in a sustainable way is being taken

Lots of gray here.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

You answered all the questions I had when I saw this. It does really depend on the context. Another positive thing might be that the amount of ice they are able to transfer to be used as ice cubes in a drink is less fresh water melt that would have gone into the oceans (affecting things like the AMOC), which is one of many concerns about Greenland's melting ice.

[-] poplargrove@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The water from the ice will find its way to the oceon whether it melts in Greenland or the UAE though?

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, with different effects. I'm not saying this will really have a measurable influence, but melt into Greenland waters is far worse than in most other places. Just look into papers discussing the AMOC slowdown and its causes.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 10 months ago

Well, arguably, maybe not.

Relocating it into more distant water cycles kinda dilutes the dilution, so to speak. Rather than dumping a bunch of fresh water directly into salt water, it lets it trickle back slowly and gives ocean water a bit of a buffer to disolve more saline, and gives it a chance to get stuck on terra firma somehow.

I didnt expect a good explanation for this, but harvesting broken glacier isnt a bad idea on paper.

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Wow ok, that makes more sense.

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