ZeroGravitas@lemm.eetoWorld News@beehaw.org•Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE
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10 months agoWhen the world starts burning, these guys will be selling marshmallows on the side. Fuck everything about this, from the bottom of my heart.
Wrong guess.
Harvesting this ice is not carbon neutral.
A ship filled with ice will burn more fuel compared to an empty ship. A refrigerated ship even more so. An ice cube paid with petrodollars to travel a few thousand miles just for some asshole bragging rights, I mean, I can’t even… Why is there a demand for this in the first place?
The gall of claiming this a low carbon business is perplexing. Low compared to what, exactly? If I make solar powered freezers in UAE and freeze distilled water, I’m pretty sure I would get the same results at a mere fraction of the total cost. But hey, no bragging rights.