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2.5 Floating City on Ice Platform
The author’s idea is to use a cheap floating platform taken from the ice fields in Arctic and Antarctic oceans for the floating cities, island, and states. These cheap platforms protected by air-film (bottom and sides) and conventional insulating cover (top) and having cooling systems to deal with any leak-through heating can sustain the platform for an unlimited time. They can be increased in number or size at any time, float in warm oceans, travel to different continents and countries, serve as artificial airports, harbors and other marine improvements, as well as floating cities and industrial bases for virtually any use.
One possible means of construction is as follows: A scouting aircraft (helicopter) confirms a satellite-surveyed ice field as suitable and delives to it a small tractor with extensible wire-saw (Fig. 8).
Fig. 8 Cutting of floating platform from ice field. Notations: 1 – ice field in arctic (Antarctic) ocean; 2 – small tractor with band-saw or wiresaw; 3 – mechanical band saw or wiresaw.
The tractor saws up the ice platform to hew there from a platform of a specified size and an ice-braker ship tows this platform to open water. Here the platform is equipped with air-film covers, protected by from warm water on all sides. Platform is towed to a place where it will be provided for with final protection and other improvements (Fig. 9); a suitable location for building the city or other floating improvement that it will come (houses, buildings, gardens, and so on) (Alexander, 2008).
Fig.9 Floating city on ice platform: Notations: 5 – city; 6 – protection from ocean waves in storm; 7 – turning connection (joint) of separated ice platform; 8 – fully-rotation azimuth thruster propellers; 9 – film dome.
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