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when you run out of ice at home what do you do? you freeze more, so to stop our ice caps melting why don't the UN get £4billion or what ever they need to build a plant that can turn sea water into fresh water freeze it and stick it back in the middle of the artic? plus the UN can sell the salt to chefs for a bit of money for maintainence!!!

2007-08-19 11:39:47 · 26 answers · asked by Beenie 3 in Environment Global Warming

to all you people who choose to put an insult or silly statement on this question!!! what was the point? you look cheap, an answer that doesn't help and you put it on for 2 points, really why?

p.s. im dyslexic so screw you!!!

2007-08-19 11:56:56 · update #1

26 answers

you know thats a great idea....

....but....

....its not very realistic...it would cause more problems

lol

your hearts in the right place though, if only it were that easy!

2007-08-19 11:51:08 · answer #1 · answered by My Pitseleh 4 · 9 1

salt water and fresh water, freeze and melt at different temperatures. dumping a load of fresh water ice, at the Arctic, would be a form of pollution. It would introduce bacteria from another environment in this ice, which could destroy or disrupt the lifecycles of the creatures the already live there..

salt is extracted from sea water in many countries that have water shortages.

To freeze mass amounts of water would take massive amounts of energy, and staff to run it. This would produce more pollution.

Your plan has problems, if you can sort them out

Inventing a more efficient solar collector and converter. Could do away with the need for oil, to run engines.
This would be a better way to combat global warming

2007-08-19 13:39:05 · answer #2 · answered by steven m 7 · 0 0

The fact about the ice caps melting is just the tip of the iceberg! (pardon the pun) The real threat to the planet is the change of climate. It is this that is melting the ice caps. If your suggestion were to happen it would probably use up phenomenol amounts of energy therefore causing even more emissions to be released making things much worse. Money is no object when it comes to stopping global warming occurring. But the question now is, Is it already too late? another issue would be what to use the money for? What is the biggest threat to the climate of our planet?

2007-08-19 22:33:24 · answer #3 · answered by Ian M 2 · 0 0

Sorry, not quite clever enough. Remember, the earth is a more or less sealed system. You can't make ice without heating something else up within the ecosystem. It'd be like turning on an air conditioner in the middle of the room. Cold comes out one side, heat comes out the other, and the total heat actually rises because of the work that was done to seperate the two.

Keep thinking, though!

2007-08-19 13:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The energy required to remove the salt would add to "global warming". The energy required to freeze the fresh water would add to "global warming". You never get something for nothing. Everything takes energy. Start with cutting current energy use. Start with making current processes more efficient. Start with education and changes in society as well as values.
Lastly, don't worry about global warming. That is a myth. Pollution is not a myth. Man's impact on the environment is huge, but global warming is a natural act. It happened when the dinosaurs roamed. It cooled when the Ice Age came. It warms as we leave the Ice Age for another stint of heat. We'll eventually have another Ice Age. I hope current people won't blame the Ice Age on existing technology.

2007-08-19 12:00:07 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 7 · 4 0

Do you know how freezers work? It is simply a displacement of heat. That means by freezing the water you'll have to put all the heat you produce somewhere else...

Another point is that you'd be using up vast amounts of energy just to freeze the water.

How about, we stop driving cars, watching tv, burning rainforests and drilling for oil.

VERY easy solution, and should at least delay the inevitable.

Finally, it's 'here', not 'hear'.

2007-08-19 21:11:20 · answer #6 · answered by Spike 3 · 1 0

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2016-11-12 22:39:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

google Global cooling...

global warming is for idiots.. it isnt true..

in the 1970s we had the same wackos screaming we would all freeze because of Global cooling.. if you didnt believe in global cooling you must be stupid... now it is global warming... pretty soon people will learn something they taugh in school not to long ago... the earth.. changes it doesnt matter if humans exsisted or not.. the earth will get hot... then it will get cold... the earth has been in almost 10,000 ice ages .. or so said one global warming wacko....and people didnt exsist... so 1 question.. what caused the ice age.... and what caused the end of the ice ages.... OMG.. global warming and global cooling with no people... WOW.. the earth knew that humans would be born and was already getting ready for it... HAHAHA....

really kid.. dont put to much stock in global warming.. in 10 to 15 years.. so cry baby liberal wacko will scream OMG GLOBAL COOLING WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!.. or it will be something else.. like OMG THE EARTH IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER...

lets say Global warming is true..(which it is not) the temp. will not change for at least 1000 years... even that wacko albore says that... are you telling me that you have so little faith in the human race that you dont think we will advance by then...look at cars today compaired to the cars of just 25 years ago.. that are 500% cleaner.. heck look how fast we have advanced.. the first personal computer came out in the 1980s... now we have personal computers in our freaking phones..... stop worring about global warming it is nothing.. but a way to reach in your pocket and steal money from you

2007-08-19 14:34:04 · answer #8 · answered by Larry M 3 · 0 1

Problem: You would need to use a nuclear power plant so you don't emit more greenhouse gases in the process. But even if you do that, the heat energy removed from the water will be released into the atmosphere, so not net cooling would take place.

2007-08-19 12:27:40 · answer #9 · answered by L Dawg 3 · 3 1

It would take enormous amounts of energy to freeze the amount of ice required. Expending all that energy would just add to global warming.

Machinery that freezes water generates heat. If you don't believe me, put your hand on the back of a refrigerator - you'll find that it's warm.

2007-08-20 00:04:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It would be better just to run evaporative cooling coils along the seabed much like a hockey or ice skating rink we could use Canada as the condensing area since we would only run it in the winter months they would benefit by being warmer then. De Beers diamond mine could be hornswagled into running the compressor/pumping station.

2007-08-19 12:16:01 · answer #11 · answered by vladoviking 5 · 2 0

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