This is pretty cool. It also could solve one of the seasteading problems (water production) in a way that is more scalable. Certainly if they can produce a robu

This is pretty cool. It also could solve one of the seasteading problems (water production) in a way that is more scalable. Certainly if they can produce a robust version of this you could pack it into lifeboats so that the first thing you did after abandoning ship would be to toss this overboard and unfold it so that it could be filling/refilling the boat's water tanks. I am not to sure about it on a metropolitan scale though, that is a lot of surface area per person. One sq kilometer is a pretty big patch for serving up water for about a million people. Call it 800K for losses due to transport.