Iceberg Hauling Could End Droughts

...French. how about something practical like a giant wind block for our beach.

Don't the polar ice caps provide vital sun reflection so the ocean doesn't absorb excess heat, the more the ice melts the more global warming progresses. Not to mention the amount of oil used to transport an iceberg across the atlantic. Doesn't exactly sound sustainable.

Icebergs are chunks that have already broken off, towing them out of their northern melt zones can actually help stave off the slowing of ocean currents. Besides once its an iceberg, its on its way to melting anyway.

Let's haul ice

that said, 7 tons of ice = 1700 gallons of water, or roughly half of a back yard swimming pool.

I hope the Canary Islands have more money than oil sheiks...

If you say 7 tons is about 1750 gallons, and you're losing 38% of it in transit, you only have 1085 gallons left.

At a cost of 9.8 million dollars, you are paying over 9 thousand dollars per gallon. I can buy 1100 gallons of water for about 1100 dollars, charter a 747 for 500 grand, and arrive in the Canary Islands tomorrow.

I'll sell the water to them for, say, about half what the Frog wants -- 5 million dollars. Call it an even 4 million in profit, 'coz I'll tip liberally. Think that's an exorbitant amount of profit?

I can charter a fleet of 747's....we can do these transactions twice a day! At a pure profit of 8 million dollars per day, it will still take me over 17 years to have made more money than Bill Gates is worth right now.

another alternative is to have people live where there's water so you don't have to tow it to them

@Kook, tell that to the state of Arizona :)

Serious this idea was actually given daylight?? So you can only really tow an iceberg to somewhere on the coast, locations in which a desal plant would probably be more reliable and possibly cheaper in the end. Those plants use a lot of energy but hauling icebergs must as well. A storm could also cause issues in transit I would imagine the iceberg could break loose fairly easily.