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.
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Imagine a tiny pod-home that could plug into any coastal city or travel on net-zero energy ships to any other coastal city reasonably fast. Nomad utopia. Sea gypsies in JIT caravans. Or like RV living on the oceans with zero sailing skill needed.
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Seasteading is too monolithic and static an idea that would be entirely dumb if it weren’t for political borders. But sea caravaning would meaningfully utilize the freedom of the seas.
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I’d like to live in a loop connecting California, WA, Alaska, Korea, Singapore, India. Same tiny home everywhere. Slow drift. Only fly if urgent necessity. Broadband internet everywhere of course. Pod vacations on other routes. All net zero carbon. Solarpunk gypsy life.
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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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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






