https://www.glaciology.net/tags/crazy-ideas/ Recent content in Crazy Ideas on Aslak Grinsted Hugo en-us Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:35:00 +0000 https://www.glaciology.net/studentproject/2026/wall_ice_cliff/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:35:00 +0000 https://www.glaciology.net/studentproject/2026/wall_ice_cliff/ <p>In <em>Game of Thrones</em>, the Wall is a 200 m tall wall of ice that has stood for thousands of years. Real ice cannot do that. Under its own weight it would creep and slump, and a vertical ice face that tall is thought to be beyond the strength of ice. So how long would the Wall actually stand, and what would be left of it?</p> https://www.glaciology.net/studentproject/2026/geoengineering_orbeez/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:15:00 +0000 https://www.glaciology.net/studentproject/2026/geoengineering_orbeez/ <p>Every summer, the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet loses meters of ice to melt. Could we slow it down by covering the surface with water-absorbing gel beads, the kind sold as toys under names like Orbeez?</p>