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Non-profit organization Ice911 received unusual proposal to slow the melting of Arctic ice with the use of hollow glass balls.
Glass balls of microscopic sizes will create on Arctic ice surface protective layer that will reflect the lights of a sun. Scientists believe that balls should open the loop feedback in which melting snow loses its reflectivity and, as a result, enhances processes global warming.
Microscopic balls made of silicon dioxide completely safe for the environment. Externally, this material resembles snow, and in properties does not differ from ordinary sand on the beach. Tiny spheres are supposed to stick to the snow, while absolutely not interacting with harmful substances, for example with oil or oils.
Researchers have calculated that the use of glass spheres will lower average temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius for the most part Arctic. At the same time, scientists are sure, to obtain the necessary the effect is not required to scatter innovative material throughout The Arctic. It will be enough to choose the most significant territories, in including the Fram Strait, which is heated 4 times more intense than the whole Earth on average. To implement your idea scientists will need about 5 billion US dollars.
Previously, researchers having studied the snow cover of our Arctic planets found fragments of plastic in it.
Andrey Vetrov
Arctic Global Warming Snow
