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...MOST HORRIFYING part of the story is that, despite Brodeur's seemingly comprehensive research and documentation, he himself claims to know only the "tip of the iceberg." He does propose a solution, though it seems almost limp and pragmatically hopeless...
...fires that destroyed property worth $6 million and killed three people. Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti denounced the torch ring as "a conspiracy to burn down Suffolk County for profit." Added Stephen Delinsky, head of the state criminal bureau: "This is just the tip of the iceberg...
...Southern California. Hult, who says he could do the job for a mere $30 million, calculates that he would lose only 5% of the berg's mass during the year-long trip. He would make up some of his immense costs by bottling a portion of the iceberg water in small flasks and then selling them as souvenirs for tourists. Says he: "The American public would really go for this." Especially residents of Los Angeles, who could derive about 75 billion liters (20 billion gal.) of water, or 10% of their annual consumption, from a 100 million-ton iceberg...
Some of the scientists at the Iowa conference were less sanguine. Wilford Weeks, of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, warned would-be iceberg movers: "Once you get north of the equator, you'll have nothing but a rope at the end of your tow." Other doubts were expressed. Could an iceberg be effectively insulated against melting? Would anchoring a huge block of ice off an arid coast have unexpected environmental effects...
These and other questions apparently did not cool Prince Faisal's ardor for the idea. He went so far as to predict confidently that he would have an iceberg in Arabia within three years. He had already succeeded in delivering a berg of sorts to Iowa, which had not seen one since the last glacier retreated, some 12,000 years ago. To dramatize his plan, the prince spent $5,000 to transport-by helicopter, plane and truck-a mini-berg of clear blue ice from Alaska's Portage Glacier to the conference, where it was chopped...