Cheap Textile Dam Protection of Seaport Cities against Hurricane Storm Surge Waves, Tsunamis, and Other Weather-Related Floods

TL;DR

This paper proposes a cost-effective textile dam design for protecting seaport cities from hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods, with potential applications in hydropower, land reclamation, and transportation infrastructure.

Contribution

It introduces a novel, inexpensive textile dam method that is easier to build and maintain than existing flood barriers, with broad applications beyond flood protection.

Findings

Proposed textile dam is the cheapest option among flood barriers.

The method enables large-scale hydropower and land reclamation.

Potential for cost-effective island-to-mainland connections.

Abstract

Author offers to complete research on a new method and cheap applicatory design for land and sea textile dams. The offered method for the protection of the USA's major seaport cities against hurricane storm surge waves, tsunamis, and other weather-related inundations is the cheapest (to build and maintain of all extant anti-flood barriers) and it, therefore, has excellent prospective applications for defending coastal cities from natural weather-caused disasters. It may also be a very cheap method for producing a big amount of cyclical renewable hydropower, land reclamation from the ocean, lakes, riverbanks, as well as land transportation connection of islands, and islands to mainland, instead of very costly over-water bridges and underwater tunnels.