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Now the challenge during melt season is that it’s like walking in a slushy. Every step you take, you sink to about mid-calf, to your knees in this slushy of ice. And so it’s very, very chal- lenging to even move around, though it’s very helpful in trying to cool beer. Mental note, there are pros and cons to every situation. So Hurricane Ian, of course comes in. On Monday we’re looking at the cone and the cone is saying it’s going to Tampa. We woke up Tuesday morning and the cone was saying it was headed directly at us. Now, most people were already at work. The school teachers were at work, my kids were at school. That’s just how it was. When we got to the ice sheet, I was surprised to see that it wasn’t white. It was gray. We came back in August to check on the exper- iment. They told us no one goes to the ice sheet in August because it’s the start of snow season; you’re going to get snowed in. We had to find some crazy helicopter pilot to take us because all the normal ones wouldn’t take us. It did indeed snow. We did indeed get snowed in. We had to emergency evac out. And so the bottom line is, again, what you see during summer versus what you see once the snow starts is the difference in color. The gray stuff, the majority of it is basi- cally space dust. What happens every year is it snows and all the particulate goes down and then it melts, but it’s like shaking pepper and every year there’s another layer of pepper on top and that extra layer of pepper makes it dark, which of course absorbs heat, which is why we have melt. We did two acres of these reflective blankets and wewereabletosave5,000tonsofice. Andso yes, would this work? Absolutely. Is this really viable, to stop melting of our ice sheets? Not re- ally. Where do they use this? Ski resorts. So you go to Switzerland and the poles for the ski lifts, they’re protecting the ice around those because of the infrastructure for ski resorts. Cost-ben- efit works there. Cost-benefit in Greenland? Off the charts. And so that brings me to Babcock Ranch, the vision of a gentleman called Syd Kitson. His goal was to have a new town that was sustain- able, completely powered by the sun and storm safe. Storm safe be- cause,one,thetownisatanelevationofthirtyfeet,sostormsurgewas not going to be a problem. And we’re inland about twenty miles. Babcock Ranch was the largest land sale in the history of Florida, 92,000 acres, of which 74,000 acres were immediately sold back to the State and put into permanent conservation. The remaining 18,000 or so acres were developed into this new town, fifty per- cent of that put into permanent conservation. Now, by comparison Manhattan is 14,600 acres. We are developing something larger than the size of Manhattan. 23 JOURNAL