In the Viking age there was no Greenland icesheet. So if we melt the ice sheets we just turn the age clock back to the 8th century.
The Viking Age (793–1066 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.
We use 1950s technology. Familiar ro every science student on Earth: the Carnot heat pump.
We suck in air, through a salt to remove the water vapour. We ten compress it - and the temperature scales with the absolute temperature. Degree +273.
We double the gas pressure -- using off peak, free electrical power. The power geenrators produce excess unwanted power at night - to keep the power plant ticking over. We utilize a frighting small amount of power to pessurise our ait. Now T₁P̀=T₂P₂ - the gas constant.
So 50⁰ C = 323⁰ K - degrees Kelvin. We send this down into the sea, or a fast slowing river. And pass the heat to our body of water.
Now we transfer teh hot gas to above a public are, and vent the air. Suddenly it is at -250⁰ C - 23⁰K at pressure.
Suddenly we have 5 million gallons of cold air/hos. The air mixes with ambient air at 40⁰ C, and cools the bulk air down to 20⁰C.
So we cool the hot lands, for nearly free - we may utilise a little solar pump < $30. Lasting unpowered for ever.
With the Greenland ice sheet, we invert the heat pump, sucking in thermal energy from 10̾ C to 3⁰ C - the maximum density of water. As the water it expands and freezes it expands! Which is why ice floats - it is less dense than water.
We double the pressure on our Carnot gas - which has drawn in heat through a in stainless steel helix. Nowe lose it 10m in from the sea, above the ice sheet. At 250⁰ C. By doubling our gas pressure. Using very little energy - provided via little solar panels.
The hot air settles on the ice, and melts it - and the water flows down the ice, melting it. We eat the ice sheet, and return life to how it was in 800 AD.
As the ice melts, we will have to reposition the plant, further up towards the land. So we warm the cold lands for nearly free. And the cold water flows back to the equator, where it rises and takes in solar heat.
so cooling the air. We can transform the temperature around bodies of water. Dropping the temperature down to ur0⁰ C. Using technology familiar to ever climate scientist of Earth. We warm the cold lands, cool the hot lands for free. And all the heat flows back in the warm sea currents, towards the poles. The natural heat shuttle of the air.
We just increase it!
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