Category: Novel Floating Ideas
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Floating the idea of cities and economic zones at sea
What are the pros and cons of this alternative to traditional settlement? Urbanisation is often thought of as a land-based process. Increasingly, however, humans are venturing to the oceans, not just for travel and transport – but for settlement. This is not as new as one might imagine. Maritime peoples…
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Styrofoam Lightweight Floating Pontoons – STYRO
EPS STYROFOAM is popularly known as one of the best materials to manufacture buoys, pontoons, and Floating Docks as it has excellent physical properties. Moreover, it is light in weight and has good buoyancy and resilience properties. Learn more: https://www.styrouae.com/insulation-and-construction/styro-eps-for-pontoon-and-buoy/
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Mega floating solar panel system to be ready in 2019
S’pore’s largest sea-based system will be in north, producing 6,388 MWh of energy yearly. A floating solar panel system roughly the size of five football fields will soon come up near Singapore’s northern shores, in the Strait of Johor. Developed by sustainable energy provider Sunseap Group, it is Singapore’s largest…
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The Voices of Marine – Sept 2018
The Voice of Marine – September 2018 Edition (The Marine Professional)
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Contemporary Floating Home on the Columbia River
BARRAMUNDI Asia Pte Ltd, a Singaporean registered aquaculture company is investing a total of $300 million to open up a sea bass farm in Brunei, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Fisheries Department signed to mobilise this venture. Present at the signing was the Minister of Primary Resources…
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Barramundi Asia to build $300 million sea bass farm in Brunei
BARRAMUNDI Asia Pte Ltd, a Singaporean registered aquaculture company is investing a total of $300 million to open up a sea bass farm in Brunei, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Fisheries Department signed to mobilise this venture. Present at the signing was the Minister of Primary Resources…
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Amazon Is Going Underwater. Seriously.
I have in front of me US Patent 9,624,034 B1, titled, Aquatic Storage Facilities. The applicant is Amazon Technologies, Inc., and the idea is to use either man-made pools or natural bodies of water to store goods while waiting for fulfillment orders. My first reaction was somewhere between “huh?” and…
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Smart Floating Farms
We believe in providing humanity with complementary solutions. The purpose of the Smart Floating Farms project is to help reduce communities/growing cities food risk associated problems, make food production more transparent, using clean energy to produce fresh food closer to home.
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Floating offshore transfer terminal proposed for Mississippi River Gulf Louisiana
The Louisiana Legislature gave birth in 2008 to what was expected to become the nation’s first offshore megaport capable of unloading containers of cargo from some of the largest commercial ships ever constructed — vessels too large to enter rivers, even the Mighty Mississippi.