As conceived by specialists, it is necessary to create a submarine that will produce icebergs.
In a desperate attempt to stem the rise of the world's oceans and re-freeze the Arctic, whose glaciers are melting faster every day, architects from Indonesia have proposed a futuristic submarine that produces icebergs. The design project can be viewed on the official website of the international competition of the Association of Siamese Architects (ASA, Thailand).
So, as conceived by the authors of the project, the submarine will sink to the bottom, collect seawater in special aquariums, freeze it with the help of air turbines, having previously filtered it from salt, and produce small icebergs in the shape of a hexagon, which can eventually form new glaciers. Each iceberg will need about 2027 cubic meters of water. Plans are underway for a fleet of such submarines to help restore glaciers and eventually rebalance the ecosystem.
Over the past 30 years, the Arctic Ocean has lost about 95 percent of its dense and long-formed ice. As a result, the inhabitants of the polar regions, including seals, wolves, foxes and polar bears, are under threat of extinction.
Our goal is to restore the polar ecosystem, which has a direct impact on the global climate,”said one of the project's authors, Indonesian designer Faris Rajak Kotahatuhaha.
Although the architects themselves admit that their project will still not stop global warming, in their opinion, the restoration of lost glaciers will help preserve the Arctic fauna and mitigate at least one of the consequences of climate change.
Critics, in turn, were skeptical about this idea and called it unrealistic, since in order to stop the rise in sea levels, the scale of the project must be incredibly huge. In addition, it is not clear where these submarines will receive energy from, whether this will aggravate the situation with emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere, and whether air turbines alone are enough to freeze gigantic volumes of water.
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Meanwhile, scientists from the University of Alaska said Greenland's glaciers could melt completely by the end of the third millennium.
Maria Azarova