Tuesday, June 23, 2009

A Lilypad City, A New Home : Staying Afloat



Singapore, a beautiful island surrounded by water.
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THIS!
Maybe, is what we NEED.
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A sustainable city : Lilypad, a floating ecopolis.
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Earth : 70.8% of the surface is water and only 29.2% is land.
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A Floating City Concept.
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Breathtaking in the Twilight.
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Quote: "The time could come when so much land has been devastated that most of us would no longer
be able to think of it as home.
That said by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut shows us that there is a silver lining should that scenario becomes reality."
I wondered.
Can the same principles for making this floating raft be
applied to making the floating islands??
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Global Warming = Temperature Rising = Sea Level Rising
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Remember the Katrina Storm in 2005..
New Orleans, the levee couldn't stop the water from flooding inland.
The Eye of the Storm : Hurricane Katrina
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This clip shows the appearance of the storm.
As it says: 'Katrina Eye maybe NOT'.
Posted by grandmafran
Wherever it maybe, it's STILL EARTH... SCARY!
Tsunami: If we can surf like him.
Then maybe we can ride out the Tsunami.
Posted by talupula
Planning is inevitable.
Could Lilypads be safer?

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