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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 May 2019
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      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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 May 2019
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 May 2019
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 May 2019
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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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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 May 2019
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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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        2. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 13 May 2019
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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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          #2https://twitter.com/vr00n/status/1102727592581451776?s=20 …

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          #AmazonHQ2 should be a seasteading utopia. A cruise ship campus that serves multiple local economies and survive climate risks. Future generations will remember the Amazon Ark more than Noah's animal schooner. There, I said it. #zanyidea https://twitter.com/vr00n/status/1102725331897716736?s=20 … pic.twitter.com/meLFu8fdPV
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          Replying to @simontegg @vgr @ahdinosaur

          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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          https://www.marineinsight.com/green-shipping/top-7-green-ship-concepts-using-wind-energy/ …

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        1. SamH‏ @SamH270 13 May 2019
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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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          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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