Oct 13, 2009: Floaters

[xoxoxoBruce]

Has Al Gore got you Freaked?
Afraid to go to sleep, for fear the ocean will rise up and drown you?
Is that what's troubling you, Bunky?

Cue brass band
Well never fear, help is here, we've got the perfect solution for you, Bunky!
It floats, it's got a moat, you'll be high and dry... Holland high... & dry, with...
drumroll The Citadel: Europe’s First Floating Apartment Complex.

Olthuis is responsible for a number of floating residences around the world and he thinks that we should stop trying to contain water and learn to live with it. The New Water and the Citadel projects are an attempt to embrace water in the Netherlands, which is almost completely composed of wetlands. The project will be built on a polder, a recessed area below sea level where flood waters settle from heavy rains. There are almost 3500 polders in the Netherlands, and almost all of them are continually pumped dry to keep flood waters from destroying nearby homes and buildings. The New Water Project will purposely allow the polder to flood with water and all the buildings will be perfectly suited to float on top of the rising and falling water.

It will be 25% more energy efficient, because it'll use the water for cooling the building.
Maybe they'll have a fish farm for food, too.

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