I kind of like the idea of domed cities on Antarctica. The land is plenty fertile, it's been lying fallow collecting nutrients for a few billion years. Fresh water is readily available (glaciers) and food is abundant (fish) The trick is making it warm enough and dealing with ice and snow buildup on the domes.
Nuclear power combined with Geothermal from one of the 91 (That's right. NINETY ONE) active volcanos on Antarctica could make portions of the Antarctic easily inhabitable, provided you enclose it to protect it from the extreme cold.
Seawater brine heated to above the steam flashpoint but contained in a pipe system could easily melt the permafrost and warm the soil to ready it for planting. Using the abundant geothermal energy to heat that water in a closed loop system would provide a reasonably low maintenance system for doing this.
There are tons of ways that the Antarctic could be settled by a determined people, and given the fact that treaties say no one country can claim it, it is ripe to be taken by the right people.
I kind of like the idea of domed cities on Antarctica. The land is plenty fertile, it's been lying fallow collecting nutrients for a few billion years. Fresh water is readily available (glaciers) and food is abundant (fish) The trick is making it warm enough and dealing with ice and snow buildup on the domes.
Nuclear power combined with Geothermal from one of the 91 (That's right. NINETY ONE) active volcanos on Antarctica could make portions of the Antarctic easily inhabitable, provided you enclose it to protect it from the extreme cold.
Seawater brine heated to above the steam flashpoint but contained in a pipe system could easily melt the permafrost and warm the soil to ready it for planting. Using the abundant geothermal energy to heat that water in a closed loop system would provide a reasonably low maintenance system for doing this.
There are tons of ways that the Antarctic could be settled by a determined people, and given the fact that treaties say no one country can claim it, it is ripe to be taken by the right people.