Submarines manufacture ice to fight climate change

Each 25m wide hexagonal artificial ice sheet built from submarine of the design team in Indonesia can prevent global warming.

The submarine project to create the artificial ice sheet of the design team in Indonesia won the second prize in the competition designed by the Thai Architectural Association.

Submarine model creates hexagonal ice.(Photo: NBC News).

The submarine's tape formation begins with " hexagonal wells". After filling seawater into the well, the seawater desalination system incorporates a giant hardening machine that operates, creating a 25-meter-wide hexagonal ice sheet. Hexagons help make artificial ice sheets more closely linked.

To limit global warming, climate change, the rebuilding of ice sheets is not enough, it is important to reduce carbon emissions worldwide. Experts appreciate the vision of this project but also doubt the feasibility of the project.

The problem for the project is the energy that the submarine can operate during ice making."The recovery of ice sheets to combat climate change effectively requires 10,000 submarines to distribute 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, University of Colorado.

Although greenhouse gas emissions are the root cause of climate change , building artificial icebergs is not necessarily a radical solution to greenhouse gas emissions, so this is a backup option. Previously many solutions to climate change have been proposed such as building floating cities, sea walls to create thousands of tons of artificial snow for Antarctica.