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"We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for more space," Han Admiraal, a civil engineer with over two decades of experience in underground space, told AFP on the sidelines of this year's World Tunnel Congress.
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"Underground spaces could easily be used for growing crops," he said, as he toured the cavernous Bourbon Tunnel, dug deep under the Italian city of Naples as a potential escape route for King Ferdinand II of Bourbon after the 1848 riots.Scientific developments in areas like aquaponics—where vegetables and fish are farmed together—could help relieve the pressure on the food supply chain, and dramatically cut transport costs if such new farms were situated under cities.
Isn't excavation expensive?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday May 10 2019, @02:51AM (3 children)
Shame alot of Australia can't support humans very well [quora.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday May 10 2019, @03:09AM (2 children)
Consider massive engineering projects to channel seawater inland, then desalination. Or something along those lines:
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The coast is always going to be a better option because you have all the water you'll ever need right there. And instead of seasteading, you could pull a Dubai and build artificial islands.
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(Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday May 10 2019, @03:40AM (1 child)
The distinction between an oil platform and an artificial island is murky. Materials used? Density of base? Same for an island and a continent. To me, the thing that makes seasteading seasteading is that we are moving into a space which has been ocean in human history (and may still be, depending on the specific proposal). It's labels all the way down, of course.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday May 10 2019, @09:10AM
Austrailia has a lot of uninhabitted coast and desert. That gives place for cities like Dubai (no need for artifical islands), and place for solar power to power it.
If Austrailia hadn't spent the last few decades selling it's resources at pennies on the dollar to China it would be very well placed.