Have been reading about the water crisis in Cape Town for a while and now this extreme solution of dragging an iceberg over.
Specifically, the experts plan to wrap the icebergs in special fabric to stop them melting, then attach them to large ships that would tow the ice up the Benguela Current, a South Atlantic Ocean current that flows northward along southern Africa's west coast.
Iceberg towing is not a new idea apparently but that does not redeem it from wackiness
The crazy scheme side of the iceberg towing industry continues apace. And the breathless media reporting on such things continues as well. This is one of these ideas that no matter how many times you repeat it remains some wild guy's wacky idea
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