More On Floating Cities

2008-9-16 04:57:00

It looks like the idea of building abodes at sea is catching on. Now Google plans on getting in on the act. Here is a quote from the story:

"The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its Internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.

"The 'water-based data centres' would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google's costs. Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centres, which are sited across the world, including in Britain."

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When the time comes that groups build cities at sea it looks like there will be many opportunities to make money. Such a city would be a much more logical place for Google to use because it would be more secure than floating on its own where it may be easy to sabotage.

The Dutch are working on technology for floating houses and cities.

Here is a web site giving details on five different ideas concerning floating cities.

Another idea in the mix is the building of artificial islands.

Lilypad Islands are also getting a lot of press.

Then others are really stretching the imagination and planning to build floating cities in the atmosphere of Venus. It appears that if we were to dwell about 20 miles above the surface of Venus we would have a temperature and atmospheric pressure similar to Earth. It is pretty interesting.

Check out this article.