Accelerating Melt Rate Makes Greenland Ice Sheet World’s Largest “Dam” – Gravitational Energy Generates Heat
Water flowing into a moulin and down to the bed of Store Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Poul Christoffersen The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower. Researchers have observed extremely high rates of melting at the bottom of the…
bubmagFebruary 21, 2022