over the history of mankind we came to a point now, when eighty percent of worlds population live by and from the sea. increasing pollution and overpopulation make life on these shores more and more difficult, endangered by hunger and poverty for former fishermen.
to win new land we must therefore go offshore, which basically means installing megastructures, made maybe of former tankers and cargoships to setup living quarters, preinstalled factories aboard and farms for fish in tanks and plants in giant container cities in and on cargoships. by using the swimming island technology very large areas on shore could be converted back to worthliving conditions, socially and environmentally.
in and around asian megacities like singapore and hongkong there are experiments winning agricultural space even in underwaterfarms for potatoes and tomatoes. what would be more natural than setting up farms and factories out to megastructures off shore, close to land, combined with swimming island technology. to the right we see a photo of an artificial island close to fukushima for waste processing, which is pretty high-tech. due to the hanjjiin collapse it is more than obvious that there is more capacity to transport than goods to transport and that just decommisioning hundreds of cargoships would ease the market.
fishfarms do more harm than good as we all know. filtering water and hygiene are poor standard all over and food and medication reach disgusting levels. as we can see in the picture the water is full of feces and an oily slime from the fish. but these fish could be held in tanks above the water line, filtered seawater in and out and fishfarming on vertebrate standard. on the other hand the farm could produce more valuable goods than just salmon or crabs. much more varieties could be bred in those tanks. algae and plankton could be harvested and processed as a byproduct of filtering and cleaning the seawater. windenergy and the fabrication of turbines on board can be another possibilty to bring energy, electricity to not only the farms and factories, but also to the settlements on shore.
a couple of wealthy entrepreneurs have undertaken the business putting small vertical containerfarms into neighbourhoods in germany and america and I guess it will not take long until investors take on seabased food production in and around prominent spots. hopefully this will bring not just farmwork, but technology and manufacturing as well. these island have been built and tested by google years ago and it is sure worth some research what happened to the seamonsters. here is another video to show the developments after hurricane kathrina.
in and around asian megacities like singapore and hongkong there are experiments winning agricultural space even in underwaterfarms for potatoes and tomatoes. what would be more natural than setting up farms and factories out to megastructures off shore, close to land, combined with swimming island technology. to the right we see a photo of an artificial island close to fukushima for waste processing, which is pretty high-tech. due to the hanjjiin collapse it is more than obvious that there is more capacity to transport than goods to transport and that just decommisioning hundreds of cargoships would ease the market.
fishfarms do more harm than good as we all know. filtering water and hygiene are poor standard all over and food and medication reach disgusting levels. as we can see in the picture the water is full of feces and an oily slime from the fish. but these fish could be held in tanks above the water line, filtered seawater in and out and fishfarming on vertebrate standard. on the other hand the farm could produce more valuable goods than just salmon or crabs. much more varieties could be bred in those tanks. algae and plankton could be harvested and processed as a byproduct of filtering and cleaning the seawater. windenergy and the fabrication of turbines on board can be another possibilty to bring energy, electricity to not only the farms and factories, but also to the settlements on shore.
we have interesting developments building offshore megastructures all over the world to set foot on waters and one example is the japanese airport . kansai ..
a couple of wealthy entrepreneurs have undertaken the business putting small vertical containerfarms into neighbourhoods in germany and america and I guess it will not take long until investors take on seabased food production in and around prominent spots. hopefully this will bring not just farmwork, but technology and manufacturing as well. these island have been built and tested by google years ago and it is sure worth some research what happened to the seamonsters. here is another video to show the developments after hurricane kathrina.
pls find more links below ..
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/08/history-and-future-of-floating-airports.html
http://usagiyaphoto.web.fc2.com/marinebiomassslideshow/introduction.html
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Mega-Float_readies_for_service_at_Fukushima-0704117.html
http://earthsky.org/human-world/felipe-cabello-on-antimicrobial-resistance-and-aquaculture
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/mega-engineering-floating-new-orleans/
