Yes, the rich and powerful refugees can finance their own floating city complete with posted guards to shoot and kill any scum that dare to invade their floating utopia of aristocratic perfection. But how long before they mourn the loss of their immigrant maids? They could create a series of trailing parking spots for old fishing boats and discarded yachts turned into floating high density apartment complexes where the hired help can live. You know, trailer parks.The floating cities that could one day house climate change refugees
This solution, by the award-winning Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut, is designed to be a new place to live for those whose homelands have been wiped out.
The 'Lilypad City' would float around the world as an independent and fully self-sustainable home. With a lake at its centre to collect and purify rainwater, it would be accessed by three separate marinas and feature artificial mountains to offer the inhabitants a change of scenery from the seascape.
Power for the central accommodation hub is provided through a series of renewable energy sources including solar panels on the mountain sides, wind turbines and a power station to harness the energy of the waves.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Rise Above It
If Global Warming® causes sea levels to rise and wipe out cities like New York, Tokyo and London...
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c.f. China Mieville's amazing book THE SCAR, in which a floating city (called The Armada) is one of five world powerhouses, and is built as a network of ships lashed together.
Also, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, featuring a similar floating mess.
I had blogged about those as well! Great minds... well whatever. I was just curious how something of that size would handle extreme weather? Such as the coast or ocean can provide?
White trash of the sea. Thar she blows!
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