Each 25m-wide hexagonal man-made iceberg made from a submarine by the design team in Indonesia can prevent global warming.
The submarine project to create an artificial iceberg of the design team in Indonesia won the second prize in the design competition by the Architectural Association of Thailand.
The submarine model creates a hexagonal iceberg. (Photo: NBC News).
The submarine’s ice-making mechanism starts from the ” hexagonal well”. After filling the well with seawater, the desalination system from seawater combined with a giant freeze-thaw machine was activated, creating a 25-meter-wide hexagonal iceberg. The hexagon helps the man-made ice sheets to be more closely linked.
To limit global warming, climate change, it is not enough to rebuild the melting ice sheets, it is important to reduce carbon emissions worldwide. Experts appreciate the vision of this project but also doubt its feasibility.
The problem for the project is the energy that helps the submarine to operate during the ice making process. “Recovering the ice sheets to effectively combat climate change requires 10,000 submarines distributed in different areas. If submarines run on fossil fuels, CO2 emissions will be more than gas. greenhouse,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado.
Although greenhouse gas emissions are the root cause of climate change , building an artificial ice sheet is not necessarily a complete solution to greenhouse gas emissions, it should only be considered a backup option. Many solutions to combat climate change have been proposed before, from building floating cities, sea walls to creating thousands of tons of artificial snow for Antarctica.