The report details the kind of industrial head-bender of a task it will be. Installing one million turbines a year for 10 years over 10% of the Arctic would cost around half a trillion dollars in the end.
If the plan of installing turbines over entire Arctic and not 10%, the yearly cost would mount up to $500 billion. As mammoth as it may sound, this would only represent around 0.64% of global GDP. 2.7%of U.S. GDP and 13% of the U.S. federal budget.
This entire plan is a multi-layered co-dependent strategy wherein we need to downsize on our greenhouse emissions which is causing sea ice loss.
Lead researcher Stephen Desch said, "We want to provoke discussion, get people thinking about the Arctic in particular, about the need to intervene strongly there, because nothing we do on the world scale is going to be fast enough to save this summer sea ice in the Arctic."
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