This floating city concept is one way to cope with climate change

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As glaciers melt and sea levels rise, coastal cities are looking for ways to cope with the growing threat of flooding. One startup is making waves with its concept for urban areas designed not to resist rising water but to float on it. - NBCNewsMACH

and underwater gardens; renewable power sources like wind and solar; sewage and waste-recycling systems; and desalination plants to provide potable water.

The city can organically transform and adapt over time, evolving from a neighborhood of 300 residents to a city of 10,000. Thirty-six 2-hectare floating neighborhoods and dozens of productive outposts create a vibrant community that can expand and contract over time.“Think about it as an urban extension to a coastal city,” Collins Chen said.

The floating platforms are being designed by the Center for Ocean Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while the above-water structures are designed by the New York and Copenhagen-based Bjarke Ingels Group of architects. Oceanix, which is incorporated in Hong Kong and headed by Collins Chen in New York, is bringing their expertise together.to expand to accommodate a growing population.

 

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MACH Should prove to be a much more effective and efficient human disposal system than MBS's.

MACH Just another way to use fear to make money off of naive people.

MACH What happens when storm or tsunami comes 🧐

MACH Everyone meet me on one side of these islands so we can do this

MACH Lies and more lies. These chicken little stories are nauseating

MACH Y'know, we were given a perfectly good coastline by god (or Allah, or the Big bang, or Brahma, whatever you're into) I'd like to try and keep it the way it is before trying to just let it go...

MACH Remember Waterworld?

MACH Call the Dutch. The figured out the fix hundreds of years ago.

MACH mike_laureano I'll be joining up with the Smokers.

MACH Report: Brilliant scam artist suckers city officials into buying his doomsday islands.

MACH If this bullshit was actually true, don’t you think people would stop buying and investing in land development in coastal areas? The problem is they don’t believe their own lies.

MACH Climate change has always and will always exist. Mankind will never be able to control it.

MACH As long as all the waste doesn’t go into the ocean.... this could be a disaster if not done right.

MACH What will they do with their plastic straws? 🍹

MACH Oh yeah that'll be a lot of fun to live on during a storm or a rogue wave

MACH Use solar powered batteries to run remote operated electric turbine engines attached to hugh icebergs and navigate to Africa. GPS navigation systems and no people. Help Africa and reduce the tidal effects. Win win...

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MACH Can they also create unicorns?

MACH THAT'S the fucking plan

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MACH Beef up the coastlines with all the garbage being dumped into the oceans by Asians & Africans.

MACH Capitalist Hellworld

MACH NBC you are a joke.

MACH realDonaldTrump and his followers: Hey there is snow in December, so no global warming LOL

MACH Did Al Gore write this tripe?

MACH Hoax

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