Global Warming and Sea Level (1 Viewer)

[DeathStar1]

Here's something,

Rather than worry about a sea level rise, isn't there some use we could make out of all that extra water if/when it does melt and head our way? For instance, some kind of clean alternative to gas....but I don't know if cars can be made to run on salt water...

 

[benjaminBen]

i am not worried about the sea level rising, there are proven studies that show it is not going to rise a ton.... if you fill a glass of ice filled water all the way to the top and the ice melts the cup doesn't overflow!!!!

 

[Jassen M. West]

Thats if the ice is already in the water. The worries come from the glaciers on land that would be adding to the oceans. Ice is all fresh water that would be diluting salty ocean water, it would also be cooling the ocean tempuratures.

 

[Jeff Gatie]

See the global warming and refinery threads for details. In short, hydrogen would have to be electrochemically extracted from water to use it as fuel. Since the law of thermodynamics states you cannot get more energy from a reaction than you put in, hydrogen will always require more energy to extract than you get back when you burn it as fuel. It is a net loss, especially if you use todays fuels to get the energy to extract it. Now, if we found a cheap, replenishable and clean source of energy to extract the hydrogen, hydrogen is a great clean energy carrier. Now all we have to do is find a cheap, replenishable and clean source of energy.

 

[MarkHastings]

A: You wouldn't be able to make a container large enough to store all the water.

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B: Even if you did find a way to use it as an energy source, it would still fall back to Earth as massive rain.

I'm no scientist but I would imagine that it would be a massive undertaking in trying to then collect all the falling rain water and deliver it back to the massive storage tank. There's just no way of getting rid of it.

The best thing to do would be to invent a GIANT freezer device to ensure the ice caps stay frozen. Or we could find a way to invent that "Space Elevator" and send the melted ice water to Mars. That'll shut those scientists up about trying to prove that there was water on Mars.