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An interesting theoretical thought exercise.

The money and fuel bill for tugboats sufficient to move that would probably be better spent on massive fields of photovoltaics and electricity-intensive seawater desalination equipment...



What if this frozen ice contains disease vectors still dormant and if we don't have immunity to them they might wipe out all life on earth.


What about nuclear powered boats? Russia has a fleet of nuclear powered ice breakers.


6000 square kilometers of ice.


Take smaller chunks of it.


How small to become profitable? You'll see, this ends in a no win situation fast. Sadly enough.


Build giant sails!




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