Floating Cities, Islands and States

• Main Author: Bolonkin, Alexander
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2008
• Subjects: General Physics physics.gen-ph; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph; FOS Physical sciences; Antarctic; Arctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0804.0754; https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0754

Many small countries are in need of additional territory. They build landfills and expensive artificial islands. The ocean covers 71 per cent of the Earth surface. Those countries (or persons of wealth) starting the early colonization of the ocean may obtain advantages through additional territory or creating their own independent state. An old idea is building a big ship. The best solution to this problem, however, is the provision of floating cities, islands, and states. The author idea is to use for floating cities, islands, and states a cheap floating platform created from a natural ice field taken from the Arctic or Antarctic oceans. These cheap platforms protected by air-film (bottom and sides) and a conventional insulating cover (top) and having a cooling system can exist for an unlimited time. They can be increased in number or size at any time, float in warm oceans, travel to different continents and countries, serve as artificial airports, harbors and other marine improvements, as well as floating cities and industrial bases for virtually any use. Author researches and computes parameters of these ice floating platforms, other methods of building such floating territory, compares them and shows that the offered method is the most cheap and efficient means of ocean colonization. : 12 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables