Energy Considerations for Lifting the Greenland Ice-Melt from the Earth's Gravitational Well

Climatologists have calculated that a complete melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet would cause global sea levels to rise by some 7.2 meters (23.6 feet). This article investigates the possibility of physically removing this excess water from the surface of the Earth by lifting the water into space. Th...

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Main Author: Wessels, Mark A.
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Published: arXiv 2017
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1710.02523 2023-05-15T16:26:24+02:00 Energy Considerations for Lifting the Greenland Ice-Melt from the Earth's Gravitational Well Wessels, Mark A. 2017 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.02523 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02523 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Popular Physics physics.pop-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1710.02523 2022-04-01T10:11:23Z Climatologists have calculated that a complete melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet would cause global sea levels to rise by some 7.2 meters (23.6 feet). This article investigates the possibility of physically removing this excess water from the surface of the Earth by lifting the water into space. The theoretical minimum amount of work for this task is calculated, and is found to be equal to the amount of solar energy intercepted by the Earth in just 32 years. : 5 pages, 2 figures Report Greenland Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland
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Energy Considerations for Lifting the Greenland Ice-Melt from the Earth's Gravitational Well
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description Climatologists have calculated that a complete melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet would cause global sea levels to rise by some 7.2 meters (23.6 feet). This article investigates the possibility of physically removing this excess water from the surface of the Earth by lifting the water into space. The theoretical minimum amount of work for this task is calculated, and is found to be equal to the amount of solar energy intercepted by the Earth in just 32 years. : 5 pages, 2 figures
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title Energy Considerations for Lifting the Greenland Ice-Melt from the Earth's Gravitational Well
title_short Energy Considerations for Lifting the Greenland Ice-Melt from the Earth's Gravitational Well
title_full Energy Considerations for Lifting the Greenland Ice-Melt from the Earth's Gravitational Well
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title_sort energy considerations for lifting the greenland ice-melt from the earth's gravitational well
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