Floating Cities: The Wave of the Future?Rainwater pouring into the New York City subway. Towns and roads in Pennsylvania overtaken by floodwater. These dramatic scenes made ___30___ in September 2021. As many as 40.5 million people have already been ___31___ by the effects of the clima...
bringing safety and development space to the Maldives with a mix of green technology, safety, commercial viability and a healthy new lifestyle, which will be the backbone of future floating cities. By doing so, the Maldivians will rewrite their destiny...
(~60m). Floating wind turbines are beginning to overcome these problems. Expensive research and establishment of floating wind farms restrain the market growth. Wave action, heavy storms, and hurricanes can damage wind turbines. The initial cost of predevelopment of wind farms, legal authorization,...
CITIES & townsThis study evaluates the serviceability of floating structures designed for marine cities by incorporating wave-dissipating modules. Small-scale model tests in a 2D wave flume were conducted to compare the serviceability of structures with and without these modules under different wave ...
floating structures design approach, sitting, local bathymetry, tides, and waves, structure and stability, platform size, mooring system, platform formations and modular assembly, expanding dynamics and growth strategy, pathways and wave attenuators, materials for a floating community concept for Abu-Qir...
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The same spherically shaped bal- loon is used for simultaneously lifting and wave manipulation through its outer surface. Two main independent functions are defined namely, 1) Routing: The received beam is focused in a certain direction, 2) Gateway: The received beam from one direction is dis-...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the United Kingdom meteorological office, the year 2019 was recorded as the second hottest year of the decade, during which most of the cities in India had faced acute water ...
As the population of the world increases and large cities expand over crowded shores, floating platforms have become an acceptable location for strategic and commercial activities. In my copending application I described a concept for a floating airport capable of accommodating a large number of aircr...
The capital of the Maldives is hugely overcrowded, with no room to expand besides into the sea. Carl Court/Getty Images AsiaPac It offers space that is hard to come by in the capital – Male is one of the most densely-populated cities in the world, with more than 200,000 people squee...