SeaSteading

A serialized Book Review
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Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians

I just purchased it from Amazon. ($12.99 ebook) I thought I'd comment on it as I read it.
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the first thing I see when I open it is




digging deeper I come upon the inevitable justification

I suppose some people consider that to be important. I don't. I just want to know How, When, and How Much (it's gonna cost me)

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In the first part the concept is described. The idea is a nomadic lifestyle on the Oceans. Individual modular units owned by the people living in them would be free to 'hook up' with larger groups . If they didn't like it in one group they could sail away and join another group.

Works for me.

The book goes into greater detail describing such an arrangement. The authors mention modern day cruise ships, which are in effect, floating cities. In a manner of speaking sea steads are already in existence...by another name.

They say..."If you step off an American or European coastal city and step onto a cruise ship, your standard of living may rise, and your cost of living may drop"

" Celebrity Eclipse offers a ten-day transatlantic crossing from Florida to England, stopping at several Caribbean islands such as the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Saint Martin --at a cost of $31 per night, not counting tips. Want an ocean view? That's $38 per night."

I'm starting to get excited now. I wonder how that would compare to what a Steemer paid for SteemFest One or Two? Imagine a SteemFest on a Cruise Ship?

but wait..there's more.

"In 2014 Shell, the oil and gas company, anchored off the coast of Australia the world's largest floating offshore structure, which will remain at sea for up to twenty-five years. A hundred and fifty feet LONGER than the Empire State Building is high, the Preluded floating liquefied natural gas facility is built to withstand Cat Five Typhoons (hurricanes)."

So it's been done...

"park a dozen such floating skyscrapers next to one another, and we'd have a floating city with waterways for roads"

not to mention the possibility of 'zip-lines' between them, flying taxis and who knows what else. Let your imagination run free.

it gets better.

" If such a city were to float more than 200 nautical miles from shore - the outer limit at which a land-based government could assert any kin of jurisdiction - then it's inhabitants would be free to start afresh with a new government."

I LIKE that...I rilly, rilly do.

in fact...it's already happening.

In an unprecedented move, Royal Caribbean International has officially seceded from land, and establlished itself as the Nation of Why Not........."

at least one person, Lee Wachtstetter has lived on it since 2007. It's relatively expensive..she pays $164,000 a year. That's expensive to ME...but your milage may vary.

excerpts

• 'it's easier to move a cargo ship the size of a skyscraper across the ocean than it is to mover your HOUSE to the next town.

• Enter the Massive Portunus Project, a plan to build six floating megaports......................twenty to forty miles offshore.......................self-powered by wind turbines and wave energy converters."

• Deep sea oil rig workers typically live on floating facilities two weeks out of four.

• "Hundreds of thousands of people live on oil and gas platforms built to withstand hurricanes.

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That's all for now. I may post some more later (I'm only on page NINETEEN!!)