Arctic Ice argues its rare, pure product can be part of Greenland’s green transition and greater independence

Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the United Arab Emirates to sell to exclusive bars. Using glacial ice in drinks is a common practice in Greenland, and, over the years, several entrepreneurs have unsuccessfully attempted to export it.

Its co-founder Malik V Rasmussen said the ice, which has been compressed over millennia, is completely without bubbles and melts more slowly than regular ice. It is also purer than the frozen mineral water usually used in Dubai’s ice cubes.

  • ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee
    51·
    9 months ago

    When the world starts burning, these guys will be selling marshmallows on the side. Fuck everything about this, from the bottom of my heart.

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
      4·
      9 months ago

      You gotta make a living. Why not make a living off of those stupid idiots who value your magic ice over regular ice. It’s like selling overpriced paper cards with pretty pictures to kids who love Pokemon. Except kids are kids and these arabs are supposed to be fully capable adults. It’s a low risk, high reward game. I can’t blame them.

      • Zworf@beehaw.org
        6·
        9 months ago

        Maybe because it makes global warming much worse, shipping refridgerated ice through the air to the desert?

      • ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        Wrong guess.

        Harvesting this ice is not carbon neutral.
        A ship filled with ice will burn more fuel compared to an empty ship. A refrigerated ship even more so. An ice cube paid with petrodollars to travel a few thousand miles just for some asshole bragging rights, I mean, I can’t even… Why is there a demand for this in the first place?

        The gall of claiming this a low carbon business is perplexing. Low compared to what, exactly? If I make solar powered freezers in UAE and freeze distilled water, I’m pretty sure I would get the same results at a mere fraction of the total cost. But hey, no bragging rights.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      8·
      9 months ago

      I hope Greenland just takes the orders but instead uses ice made by huge freezers in Romania.

        • sqgl@beehaw.org
          1·
          9 months ago

          I was thinking of maximising profit but maybe Greenland could get a good deal on the packed down snow at the end of the Dubai ski “season”.

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    Drinking a cocktail on top of a Dubai skyscraper may seem decadent enough, but a Greenland entrepreneur wants to add ancient glacier ice scooped from the fjords to the glass, for the ultimate international thrill.

    Using glacial ice in drinks is a common practice in Greenland, and, over the years, several entrepreneurs have unsuccessfully attempted to export it.

    These parts of the ice sheets have not been in contact with any soils or contaminated by pollutants produced by human activities.

    Other reactions and private messages have gone even further, including some comments which, according to Rasmussen, have “verged on death threats”.

    The first stage of the shipping, from Greenland to Denmark, is, Arctic Ice argues, of low carbon-intensity, as most refrigerated shipping containers that leave Greenland would have been empty, because the country imports more frozen goods than it exports.

    It has now committed to becoming fully carbon-neutral, and once the supply chain has been established and Arctic Ice’s carbon footprint calculated, all excess emissions will be calculated and compensated for, either through carbon capture and storage, or through emerging technologies that suck CO2 out of the air.

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