The “team” responsible for the project or the “teen”. Teen makes more sense.
@afterdinnercreations936 Says:
they're distractions to take away from the real-problem with climate-change.
@TerribleFire Says:
What the world needs to do is stop listening to hype and dreams and start listening to physics
@lono7732 Says:
With this philosophy, wouldn't it be a better idea to cloud-seed to create clouds, so sun doesn't hit the ice
@Luisasophie163 Says:
Im not an engineer but is the amount of energie needed to freeze this water the same amount you need to melt them? so why we just stopping awrming up the climate XD seems rly stupid to me. there are so many proofs that you dont need to be smart to get an degree XD
@OgOssman Says:
I think you got the dimensions wrong, it was wider than it was thick. Your scale model is thicker than it is wide. They should resemble pucks, No?
@TheArthurfonzarelli Says:
I'm likely missing something here and as a new subscriber love watching you crap on Elon Musky. Isn't the ice model you made reversing what they proposed? 82 feet wide by 16 feet thick? 5 and 1/8s wider than tall? Thanks!
@stickman3214 Says:
SOLAR FREAKIN' ICE WAYS??!?
@lancemillward1912 Says:
Sun umbrellas over the arctic...job done
@kerryscott1508 Says:
In the far far future. This will be needed. The polar ice caps will melt. They were not always there.
@thanhhuynh175 Says:
A 29 yr old ARCHITECT. Not an ENGINEER. BIG difference.
@mp4986 Says:
3:25 "Interesting engineering solution."
So, is that kind of like when Sir Humphry Appleby describes something as a "novel idea" on Yes, Prime Minister?
@meatslide Says:
Anything except address the real problem. We're still burning fossil fuels for energy production and we still cannot store large quantities of energy.
Says:
I mean by the logic of this project, why bother with the submarine? Just build massive, solar powered, skyscraper-sized refrigerators in Antarctica and freeze it down! I mean that does not violate any laws of physics or just plain logic, right? RIGHT???
@mash2481 Says:
COOKIES!!!
@mash2481 Says:
That Captain Kirk meme killed me!
@HighFlyer96 Says:
I'm pretty sure, it would be much more effective to cover large areas of waters with a white reflective blanket.
A large "cooling" factor of ice is the albedo. The whiter something is, the more it reflects the light instead of absorbing it into heat.
@niccage6375 Says:
Im only a public high school graduate that works at walmart, and my first thought was, "wouldn't that cause heat pumping into the ocean"
@roderickflint1330 Says:
I don't get people and their "Global warming"
I mean sure we do pollute the world but the earth is warming and freezing in cycles for millions of years and here we are some dummies who think they can control it....
@bobbart4198 Says:
... And this will ONLY take THREE HUNDRED YEARS & cost a cool COUNTLESS TRILLIONS of Dollars ... it would probably be cheaper & quicker to trigger a bunch of volcanoes in isolated areas of the northern Ring of Fire. Sulfur galore, lots of nifty fireworks and it would be like Toba, Tambora, Krakatau, Mount Pelée & Vesuvius all going off at once ...
No sunlight, no heat - and, as an added bonus - we're all dead ! ... But unlike this plan, it might actually work ! ...
@stephenelliot6875 Says:
Arctic freaking icebergs!
@scheilong24 Says:
Wasn’t the idea to just remove ice so that the water freezes by itself from the outside temperature?
@null090909 Says:
9:20 That were the discussion should start and the idea end.
@edrimeikis9270 Says:
It looks like their plan was to entrap air in the ice to achieve their magic ice properties
@liquidpatriot4480 Says:
A video not about Elon musk? Every now and then you see past your obsession and cover a new topic 😂😂😂
@phnix6242 Says:
Cmon now…….
@gdragonlord749 Says:
This fails on thermodynamics. The heat has to go sumewhere.
@glass8289 Says:
CNN and Forbes and Tabloids or propaganda medium. They don't do any journalism.
@pop5678eye Says:
Do you mean to tell me all the time I tried to cool my house by opening my fridge door was for nothing?
Shocking!
(it still amazes me how many households still fall for this myth)
@Leo-iq9or Says:
it would be interesting to see comparisons to just rolling out cheap tin foil to increase solar reflection vs cost,
or the use of expanded styrene blocks to reflect light from the ocean around the ice with variable sized pools on there surface to catch water so they freeze together and eventually form a ice shelf.
or there used to be a YT channel that made energy saving stuff that made a white pigment that emitted infrared energy at the frequency not absorbed by the atmosphere if that could be used as a passive no energy heat sink and heat ejection system,
but still would be too inefficient,
its a good thing that the planet actually isn't supposed to be in a complet stasis or else the ice melting would be a actual problem,
instead of a problem caused by politicians wasting time and money by not moving vulnerable towns & cities away from floodable area,
love the videos keep up the good work thunderfoot.
@CommissarMitch Says:
As much as I do not want the ice caps to melt I saw this was not able to work.
@jonaskingofsparta Says:
me: "which of these one hundred issues would he use to debunk this"
Thunderf00t: *busts out the thermodynamics*
me: "oh. that'll do it"
@BonJoviSXS Says:
One thing I do like about these stupid ideas is they get you thinking at least. Like how I could see the idea of separating the salt from the sea water has some potential. Like an installation on an ice sheet kind of like an oil rig, that pulls water up and separates the salt from the water before spraying the water over the ice sheet. Can harvest salt, and protect an area of the ice sheet at the same time. Probably just as stupid of an idea though lol.
@Notsogoodguitarguy Says:
Thunderf00t, in all fairness, this was designed by an architect. I have a friend that's an architect, and he always jokes that architects make things that look pretty. Then they give them to an engineer to rework them so they actually function. Also, I dunno about other places, but in Germany, architects earn a Bachelor/Master of Arts, not of Engineering. That should tell you everything you need to know about the project.
@clemZboubtoila Says:
I am pretty sure that if all the ice present on the ocean melts it won't make the water levels rise up.
If I put ice in a glass of water, the level of water stays the same even when the ice ice melted.
Why would we make ice that defies physics
@animaze8043 Says:
We need a mashup of stupid ideas. Maybe someone can improve on this idea?
1) Concentrate solar radiance via a mirror/lens and heat up graphite blocks ontil they are red-hot
2) Put them in a capsule
3) Transport capsules to SpaceX's TX launch pad via Hyperloop
4) Launch the capsules into space via Starship
5) Global warming is now abated
All powered by solar friggin roadways
@Sebastian-pc1qf Says:
Reflection of the sun by large heat resistance tarpolins.
@danielmcleavy4344 Says:
Futurama's idea of putting an icemaker on halley's comet seems more legitimate than this 😂
@cressdiligent Says:
One month later. So only 12 bergs in a whole year. Exluding maintenance repairs of course as well weather issues. Ridiculous
@newogame1 Says:
"filtering out the salt" is all they had to say for me to call bs
@kittenisageek Says:
I have a friend who regularly updates me on new technologies to benefit the planet. He pointed this one out and also pointed out the carbon capture pipeline they're trying to put through the midwest. So I proposed a hypothetical to him: "Lets say you can design a device that is easily scaleable. It can capture carbon from the atmosphere, reduce ambient temperatures, create sustainable fuels, and even produce food while being entirely solar-powered. Would you be in favor of such technology?" He replies that he would, indeed be in favor of it. So I smiled and pointed, "Then plant a tree." ... ... we haven't spoken for six months now.
@drumunism3781 Says:
You spent a lot of time on energy cost of refrigeration, but I don’t think that was part of their plan at all. Their theory is that if they can desalinate the water, the cold environment will do all refrigeration necessary. Then freshwater on top of salt water would float more like Styrofoam and less like your demonstration. The freshwater cubes will remain frozen until the environment warms another 3°F. But if they really had desalinization technology that could run solar panels, they wouldn’t be putting it in the Arctic, they would put it in Africa first.
@dmaxcustom Says:
Reminds me when people had this craze for perpetual motion machines.
@MegamanTheSecond Says:
I remember having a similar idea at idk 13? The idea was to use water currents and artic winds to power a cooling tower that would cool the surrounding water to slow the melting of icecaps while doing more research i realized it was a waste of time (theres a bunch of reasons but my comment will get deleted if i type it)
@gowiththeflow7953 Says:
ICE ICE BABY
@HansJuergen-ps8bt Says:
The Generation is not stupid, it just was robbed of the opportunity of a decent education. Add in the corporate indoctrination and "teaching an effective workforce" and you get this Dunning-Krueger Clusterfuck. Education got massively defunded over the world the past decades. We are robbing people of their potential. Others way to overconfident fill the void. Indoctrinated people believe a lot of stupid things.
@picobyte Says:
The whole CO2 induced global warming story is debunked.
@pepefrogic3034 Says:
Yeah this arrogant youtuber is such an arse it makes him unable to be objective. Sure, there is some BS, but making such a big point out of iceberg being submerged mostly, is just plain sensationalistic and not so important, its just mean - it is not the main point and what do you expect from illiterate CNN journalists - the mainmproposal does not seem to be so ignorant. As for his experiments, flat layer of ice would float with flat side horizontal, and as long as it does not melt i.e. this is what is important here, would reflect light. As for the arguments he makes, there are two - energy cost, and heating. For both, he assumes this would work as a refregirator. But why - proposal is to use cold air (below the freezing point of water) from the atmosphere - that is not what you have when you refregirate. So, the situation is completely different from the comercial icemakers. Here you have very cold air at disposal. The additional power is supplementary but not the main source of cooling. Sure, using solar power is not the only way to go, perhaps even thermal engines using cold air and water as two temperature reservoars can be used, but the power used is just sumplementary which ever way you do it. Now in any way the heat is going to be produced when you freez something, that much is certainly true. This heat goes to atmosphere, and it is going to be distributed. Even at scale, it is not at all clear that this heat is going back into melting ice - it is not how it works, atmospere (and ocean) are big and only part of the heat is used for melting ice. So, it seems that rather than being impossible, this idea is not that silly at all (and is certainly not refuted by this arrogant youtuber), despite some silly details that are rigtly pointed out (like uselesness of desalinizing ice, solar power questions, and the silly floating ice pictures, but all of those are not essential and some probably just stupidity of CNN journalists).
@plintdillion286 Says:
Does it come with a gin and tonic?
@EleanorPeterson Says:
Hmm.🤔 The 'Futurama' episode on global warming was more realistic. They mined ice on comets and dropped chunks of it into the ocean...
When they ran out of ice, they got all of the world's robots to vent their exhaust gases in the same direction, pushing the Earth away from the Sun and into a wider orbit, resulting in a drop in global temperarures.
I suspect that the students watched Futurama, but the competition judges were all into Matt Groening's lesser creation, The Simpsons.
(Oooh, that'll be controversial. Let the hate-storm commence.🙄)
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