Posted on 03/08/2015 9:26:12 AM PDT by rktman
An abandoned solar energy factory in Glomfjord, Norway is being repurposed.
Norway’s Renewable Energy Corp. filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and closed its solar manufacturing plant.
Starting this fall, the former solar factory will be used to ship black refrigerated boxes containing ice cubes cut from the Svartisen (“black ice”) Glacier to upscale bars and restaurants in New York, London and Dubai.
Svartisen, which is located on the country’s northwestern coast, is Norway’s second largest glacier and the lowest one in mainland Europe.
Geir Olsen, who founded Svaice last November with a 250,000 kroner grant from Nordland County, hopes to ship 16 million boxes of the glacial ice cubes (“remains of the last ice age”) annually.
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2. Maybe the un will step and declare Svartisen a world heritage site under agenda 21.
3. How big of a gaping "ice hole" will this create?
4. Won't this accelerate glow bull warming by reducing the cooling that comes from this glacier?
Gaping ice hole
*snicker*
A solar energy plant that operates in a region that gets some 20 hours of sunlight during the summer couldn't make a profit?
'Course, the place gets some 20 hours of darkness a day during the winter, but still.
I guess even if it was at the equator, by the end of the year it would have gotten the same number of hours of daylight.
What the hell!!!???
The glaciers aren't melting fast enough? Now they want to chip away at them???
Somebody ping Algore. This is really going to chap his belly fat.
Well, I’ll be damned. The really smart people in New York City will pay good money for ice from Norway. Maybe I can sell them some dust from Africa to spread around their apartments.
“Frozen” comes to RL — I guess someone was inspired!
Reminded me of Johnny Dangerously.
When did the NEA take over Norway's schools?
First they waste valuable resources by manufacturing worthless solar panels, and now they want to destroy a glacier? Sounds like a conspiracy.
And they won't even strain a brain cell contemplating the irony that the ice was brought there thanks to a failed solar power plant!
How wonderful it must be to be a Liberal.
Ice from glaciers? I’d say there’s been lots more than just one sucker born every minute! Polar Beat Whizz Ice Co., Inc... [Hur de hurr hurr]
black refrigerated boxes-containing-(“black ice”)
All for “RICH WHITE PEOPLE”.
White people buying BLACK ICE.
Dat be slabery.
Dat be racist.
” And they won’t even strain a brain cell contemplating the irony that the ice was brought there thanks to a failed solar power plant!
How wonderful it must be to be a Liberal.”
No Brains = No Headaches
Dang, selling glacier ice for cocktails. I wish I had thought of it!
Gimme three fingers of Wild Turkey over that black ice.
Glaciers? We got lots!
There may be some truth to this. Glacier ice is typically compressed snow with a certain amount of air. So it has a lower density that "regular" ice. The presence of air bubbles could certainly slow heat transfer and make the ice thaw more slowly. The part that is not mentioned is that if there is lower density due to trapped air there is also less btus to transfer to the drink.
black ice....I don’t think so, especially if there is a hint of yellow in it.
“Gimme three fingers of Wild Turkey...”
And peel me a grape.
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