Living Afloat
Luxury Ocean Construction or Sustainable Forms of Living?
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Seasteading Institute – founded by Patri Friedman, and funded by Peter Thiel, claims to build floating ”sea top communities” by 2020. French Polynesia’s Council of Ministers has passed a memorandum of understanding to allow Seasteders to build in a littoral zone in exchange for financial benefits the new floating city would bring forward.
In a Huffington Post article, James Carli reports that the Seasteaders aim to experiment with governance and with how to make a sustainable form of living. The design partner of the initiative, Dutch Deltasync, has already built a floating ecosystem in Rotterdam.
While Seasteaders are planning, other companies have already been building on the water for some time. Dutch floating homes are well known, and recently, Finnish company Admares has built a luxurious floating terrace Burj Al Arab, and will soon build floating homes in Dubai.
Extending expensive real estate to the Sea at existing seafront sites probably makes financial sense. Whether floating settlements will prove to be sustainable remains to be seen. Harnessing wave and solar energy at the housing site is certainly interesting. The question remains, how can an entire ecosystem with food and waste cycles be realized on a floating platform without harming the already struggling ocean ecosystem?
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