Wonder if there’s a way to combine solar and wind power to make efficient and relatively fast passenger ships. You could have a dozen circulating on a route between say Hong Kong and LA and people could live in pods on them flexibly or at end points. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tûranor_PlanetSolar …
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nothing on the sea stands still. moving makes a lot more sense. it's hard to extract much energy with solar compared to sails though. for the same speed, you'd need a larger solar panel than you would sails. solar electric for manuvoring, but sails for crossing the ocean.
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It's an appealing solarpunk vision. In practice, not sure. I've noticed that life on islands tends to be significantly more expensive – certainly in terms of food and other goods – than life on the mainland. Logistics are important.
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Worthwhile tradeoff for many though. That’s why all the major islands feature interesting expat communities besides locals.
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In Cory Doctorow's Walkaway there are low-cost zeppelins that travel wherever the wind takes them ferrying around the countless unemployed masses that live outside the system
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I've imagined 2 seasteading tribal vectors. 1. Crypto-envrio-libertarians use its creation as a religious motif and liberate themselves from various top-down regimes 2. MegaCorp campuses that can avoid HQ2 fate and provide their GenZ employees perpetual Instagrammable living.
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Mine - an Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, Boston - arc. On a home named "Slow Drift Saga". And, about that time (upon which this might occur) no worries about "winter" iceburgs, I figure.
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The semi nomadic lifestyle seems like the highest form of human living... the romans in some ways were more semi nomads than settlers. The legions built a town each night. The mongols took that logic even further. Both were the vanguard for their era
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