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Ocean colonization is the theoretical practice of building structures to allow humans to live permanently in areas of Earth covered in water; whether floating on the surface of the ocean, secured to the ocean floor, or somewhere in between. Animated map exhibiting the worlds oceanic waters. ...
Purposes
The immediate practical advantage of this idea is you can have ocean front space with lots of fresh air and sunshine without having to buy land or pay taxes. Longer term it might lessen the effects of overpopulation by expanding the sustainable living space many times over, and the possibility of forming micronations. Map of countries by population density (See List of countries by population density. ...
Sustainable - the ability to maintain into perpetuity. ...
Human habitats are any habitats intended for humans. ...
This article is about small nations that are not recognized by any world government. ...
Many lessons learned from ocean colonization will likely prove applicable to space colonization. Colonies on the ocean will be easier than colonies in space, so probably come first. In particular the issue of Sovereignty will be very similar for ocean and space colonies. Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don Davis Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, space habitation, etc. ...
Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme political (e. ...
Economy The main obstacle to such a plan is the economics. To be more than a novel experiment the colony must be able to support itself financially. While it can save the cost of land, building a floating structure that survives in the open ocean is very expensive. So how can it make enough money to justify the expense? Ocean front land can be very valuable, especially in countries with no income taxes, so it is possible that building space and selling it to rich people could be done at a profit. Tourists like to go to warm places during the winter. Tourism drives the economies of many small islands. Depending on what all was done, ecotourism might be a possibility. An ocean colony in the right location could also have an economy based on tourism. The colony might also be competitive as an Offshore Financial Centre. Tourists on Oʻahu, Hawaii Tourism is travel for predominantly recreational or leisure purposes, and also refers to the provision of services in support of this act. ...
Ecotourism means ecological tourism, where ecological has both environmental and social connotations. ...
An Offshore Financial Centre (or OFC), although not precisely defined, is usually a low-tax, lightly regulated jurisdiction which specialises in providing the corporate and commercial infrastructure to facilitate the use of that jurisdiction for the formation of offshore companies and for the investment of offshore funds. ...
Food While importing food and fishing are most probable, other interesting possibilities include hydroponics and open-ocean aquaculture. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. ...
NASA researcher checking hydroponic onions with Bibb lettuce to his left and radishes to the right Example of autotrophic metabolism Hydroponics is crop production with mineral nutrient solutions instead of soil containing silt and clay. ...
Workers harvest catfish from the Delta Pride Catfish farms in Mississippi Aquaculture is the cultivation of the natural produce of water (such as fish or shellfish, algae and other aquatic organisms). ...
Power Such settlements or cities would probably import diesel and run conventional power plants as small islands everywhere do. However, other interesting possibilities include solar power, geothermal vents, or tidal energy, nuclear plants, deep-sea oil deposits, and developing/farming a species of seaweed or algae for vegetable oil. Solar power describes a number of methods of harnessing energy from the light of the sun. ...
Geothermal power is electricity generated by utilizing naturally occurring geological heat sources. ...
Tidal power is a means of electricity generation achieved by capturing the energy contained in moving water mass due to tides. ...
Nuclear power station at Leibstadt, Switzerland. ...
Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and elaion – oil or Latin oleum – oil ) or crude oil is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ...
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is the most likely long-term energy source. All that is required is tropical (warm) surface water and access to deep, very cold water. The difference in temperature is used to drive an electric generator via a turbine. (There is an added benefit in that the deep cold water usually is more fertile than surface water in the open ocean, and can support mariculture). View of a land based OTEC facility at Keahole Point on the Kona coast of Hawaii. ...
Mariculture is the cultivation of marine organisms for food, either in their natural environment or in seawater in ponds or raceways. ...
Existing communities Similar communities already exist in the form of hotels, research stations, houseboats, houses on stilts, land below sea level behind dikes, vacation cruise ships, ocean oil rigs, etc. Dariush Grand Hotel,Kish island, Iran The 4-star Manor House Hotel at Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England. ...
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A houseboat in Amsterdam Houseboat for Students in Zwolle, Netherlands. ...
Pacific Sky sails under Sydney Harbour Bridge A cruise ship or a cruise liner is a passenger ship used for pleasure voyages, where the voyage itself and the ships amenities are considered an essential part of the experience. ...
Natural gas drilling rig A drilling rig or oil rig is a structure housing equipment used to drill for and extract oil or natural gas from underground reservoirs. ...
Further, humans spreading to small islands throughout the world has already occurred and is continuing to occur. Using current technology to create artificial islands is just an incremental step in continuing the spread of humanity. Before Mexico City, Tenochtitlan was an artificial island of 250,000 (Dr Atl) Dejima, not allowed direct contact with nearby Nagasaki Formoza (Gdynia) The World in Dubai An artificial island is an island that has been formed by human, rather than natural means. ...
Millennial project In his book, "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps", Marshall Savage puts forth one of the most comprehensive plans for ocean colonization (as one of eight steps toward colonizing the entire galaxy.) The proposal described plans for obtaining colony materials, food, shelter, water and power from the ocean. In brief: The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall Savage is a book (reprinted in 1994) that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization. ...
Marshall T. Savage is an advocate of space travel who wrote The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps and founded the Living Universe Foundation, which was designed to make plans for stellar exploration over the next 1,000 years. ...
NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 17,000 parsecs in diameter and approximately 20 million parsecs distant. ...
- Power is fundamental, and would be provided by ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC). Power storage would be as hydrogen.
- Colony structures would be hexagonal lilypads anchored within one degree of the equator, a region without violent storms. The lilypads would start as magnesium mesh, a metal obtainable from seawater extraction. Thick salt crusts would be grown and maintained on the mesh with electrical salt deposition. The result is a material somewhat resembling a shell of reinforced concrete and is called seacrete. Unfortunately, the information in the book about how much energy it takes to make seacrete is low by a factor of 42 [1]. So essentially all the cost/time estimates are low by a factor of 42.
- Water would be produced abundantly as a side-effect of the open-cycle ocean thermal energy conversion.
- Food would be obtained by aquaculture, and intensive hydroponics, including fresh-water aquaculture performed in plastic pools. The needed water would be from the open-cycle OTEC plants.
- Exports would be fresh food, light manufactured goods, power in the form of hydrogen and intellectual property.
An internet mailing list formed to attempt to organize it. The group incorporated as the "Living Universe Foundation." The list was still in existence as of 2006.[2] View of a land based OTEC facility at Keahole Point on the Kona coast of Hawaii. ...
Energy storage is the storing of some form of energy that can be drawn upon at a later time to perform some useful operation. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number hydrogen, H, 1 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 1, 1, s Appearance colorless Atomic mass 1. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number magnesium, Mg, 12 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 3, s Appearance silvery white Standard atomic weight 24. ...
Seacrete, also known as Seament and Sea Cement, is a substance formed by electro-accumulation of minerals disolved in sea water. ...
Workers harvest catfish from the Delta Pride Catfish farms in Mississippi Aquaculture is the cultivation of the natural produce of water (fish, shellfish, algae and other aquatic organisms). ...
NASA researcher checking hydroponic onions with Bibb lettuce to his left and radishes to the right Example of autotrophic metabolism Hydroponics is crop production with mineral nutrient solutions instead of soil containing silt and clay. ...
For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (movie). ...
See also Before Mexico City, Tenochtitlan was an artificial island of 250,000 (Dr Atl) Dejima, not allowed direct contact with nearby Nagasaki Formoza (Gdynia) The World in Dubai An artificial island is an island that has been formed by human, rather than natural means. ...
Workers harvest catfish from the Delta Pride Catfish farms in Mississippi Aquaculture is the cultivation of the natural produce of water (fish, shellfish, algae and other aquatic organisms). ...
For other uses of horizon, see Horizon (disambiguation). ...
Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. ...
Part of Montreals underground city, a concourse in Bonaventure metro station, showing directional signs leading to buildings accessible through the underground city An underground city is a network of tunnels that connect buildings, usually in the downtown area of a city. ...
The micronation of Sealand Micronations – sometimes also referred to as a cybernations, fantasy countries, model countries, and new country projects – are entities that resemble independent nations or states but which are unrecognized by them, and which for the most part exist only on paper, on the Internet, or in the...
A graphical image of a Seastead platform A seastead is a floating platform which could be used to create a sovereign micronation. ...
Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don Davis Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, space habitation, etc. ...
References - ^ http://www.seastead.org/commented/paper/designs.html#Seacrete
- ^ http://www.luf.org
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