Tengku Zafrul says will facilitate PM’s meeting with Microsoft CEO in mission to make Malaysia Asean’s digital hubTo save sea ice, a Dutch startup found inspiration in a technique typically used to make skating rinks. — ETX Studio picPARIS, March 16 — A Dutch startup has come up with a plan for using seawater to help reinforce ice caps and slow down the melting caused by global warming.
But that’s not all: by creating these extra layers of ice, the Dutch company hopes to enhance the ice’s “albedo effect“, ie, the reflection of the sun’s rays back into the atmosphere. To carry out its experiments, Arctic Reflection joined forces with a team of scientists from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.Known as “Arctic Ice Management” , the process looks promising, but raises a number of questions and challenges.
The required water volume to compensate the annual sea ice volume loss highly depends on the location, initial ice thickness and target ice thickness and varies between 707 to 1,095 cubic km in the Beaufort Sea and between 386 to 464 cubic km in the Transpolar Drift for the methods discussed in this research.