World's First Floating City is Underway in French Polynesia

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World's First Floating City is Underway in French Polynesia

 

 

 

Aerial view of an island

(Photo : Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)

 

 

 

The French Polynesia has signed a memorandum of understanding with California's Seasteading Institute in San Francisco on Friday, which is aimed at building the world's first autonomous floating city.

 

According to the institute's page, the executive director Randolph Hencken supposes that the seasteading offers a solution to create new, resilient territory, as parts of the French Polynesia is currently facing threats of disappearance due to its low-lying nature. It is also seen as a tool for climate change adaptation.

 

Science Alert said that if ocean levels continue to rise at their current rate, French Polynesia could lose up to two-thirds of its land to the sea. While the developers have already laid out the impressive plan, further investigations are yet to be carried to out to determine its environmental and economic impact.

 

"What we're interested in is societal choice and having a location where we can try things that haven't been tried before. I don't think it will be that dramatically radical in the first renditions. We were looking for sheltered waters, we don't want to be out in the open ocean - it's technologically possible but economically outrageous to afford," Hencken told ABC News.

 

"If we can be behind a reef break, then we can design floating platforms that are sufficient for those waters at an affordable cost. We don't have to start from scratch as this is a pilot project. They also have very stable institutions so we're able to work with a government that wants us there, that we have respect for and they have respect for us," he continued.

 

The floating island will start small but will be self-sufficient as basic facility will be made available on the island itself. The MoU stipulates that the plans will be incorporated into draft legislation. If passed by the end of 2018, construction can start some time in 2019.

 

 

 

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/35132/20170120/look-worlds-first-floating-city-underway-french-polynesia.htm

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They could do it by inviting alot of airhead to move there