Floating Cities, Islands and States

TL;DR

The paper proposes a cost-effective method for creating floating cities and territories using natural ice platforms from polar regions, offering a flexible solution for ocean colonization and territorial expansion.

Contribution

It introduces a novel, inexpensive approach to building floating landmasses from Arctic or Antarctic ice, with detailed parameter analysis and comparison to other methods.

Findings

Ice platforms can be maintained indefinitely with insulation and cooling systems.

The proposed method is the most economical among existing options.

Floating platforms can serve multiple functions like cities, airports, and industrial bases.

Abstract

Many small countries are in need of additional territory. They build landfills and expensive artificial islands. The ocean covers 71 per cent of the Earth surface. Those countries (or persons of wealth) starting the early colonization of the ocean may obtain advantages through additional territory or creating their own independent state. An old idea is building a big ship. The best solution to this problem, however, is the provision of floating cities, islands, and states. The author idea is to use for floating cities, islands, and states a cheap floating platform created from a natural ice field taken from the Arctic or Antarctic oceans. These cheap platforms protected by air-film (bottom and sides) and a conventional insulating cover (top) and having a cooling system can exist 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. Author researches and computes parameters of these ice floating platforms, other methods of building such floating territory, compares them and shows that the offered method is the most cheap and efficient means of ocean colonization.