• Iceberg-as-cargo concept: A 10-million-ton iceberg equals 50–100 large tankers; Dassault Systèmes “IceDream” study shows towing from Newfoundland to Canary Islands at 0.3 m/s (25 km/day) takes 141 days and costs ≈ €8 M.  
• Supply statistics: ~479 icebergs per year drift into North Atlantic shipping lanes, with a record 2 202 in 1984 and zero in 1966 and 2006, making them a seasonally abundant resource.  
• Secondary applications discussed: luxury “ski-and-gamble” cruises to warm ports, stationary freshwater sources harvested by melting ice in giant floating bags and piping to shore, and hidden pirate or research bases inside iceberg voids.  
• Engineering feasibility of an “iceberg land-bridge” across the 136 km Bering Strait: would require continuous replacement, tug fleets, and modular suspended rail or cable systems to counteract melting and drift.  
• Icebergs are salt-free fresh water because slow freezing excludes brine, simplifying potability and reducing corrosion compared with seawater cargo.  
• Historical precedent cited: WWII “Project Habakkuk” explored pykrete (ice-wood pulp composite) ships as large-scale ice structures.  
• Technical aside on randomized vs. deterministic search algorithms: stochastic methods can outperform systematic branch-and-bound in certain high-dimensional constraint-satisfaction problems.  
• Practical control-systems question: how to maintain constant volumetric flow rate when hand-off occurs between two identical syringe pumps driven by stepper motors, given the non-linear relationship between step-delay and fluid volume.