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The combination of hydrogen production and desalination using simple techniques are an exciting prospect for this decade. For architects of 21st century cities
by aSplash0fDerp 7y ago
The combination of hydrogen production and desalination using simple techniques are an exciting prospect for this decade.
For architects of 21st century cities, most of these sustainable technologies would benefit from a cleanslate design, rather than trying to compete with builtup 20th century infrastructure.
I think Austrailia is postured to be the biggest beneficiary of all of these "leaps" in technology this century. Most of the desert area is the perfect canvas to start building indoor cities that will be the models/prototypes for the spacestations that the next generation will use to explore urban life outside of our atmosphere. Even building a cruise ship on land would be a good starting point for a 21st century city if they could support several thousand residents with enough freshwater for self-sustaining agriculture and energy to take root.
Even though we won't have saltwater in space, most of these advancements in sustainables fit the roadmap to space more than they're currently reported. Hopefully they'll break ground on new cities using these new resources sometime soon and change the narrative appropriately.
- wffurr 7y agoLandships sound like the plot of some dystopian future film; ecosteaders fight off the scavenger bands.
- RosanaAnaDana 7y agoClearly you've not passed through northern New Mexico.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt is already - in the my opinion deeply silly book/movie series(?) Mortal Engines. I haven't read or watched them but saw a video ad and thought that it was the stupidest thing I had ever seen. Anyway it is effectively landships except they are massive steampunk mobile cities which grind up and harvest other sessile settlements and smaller mobile ones. I get the extended metaphor involved of colonalism and enrichment by exploitation of the weak and pillaging instead of their own production but even for YA Dystopian it is just too dumb logistically for me to suspend disbelief.
- roywiggins 7y agoThe books are much better than the movie, but it's not exactly hard sci-fi. They predate the big surge in apocalyptic YA and are much better than they deserve to be. They're not less plausible than "Cities in Flight" or "Marooned in Real-time" or anything with warp drives and laser pistols.
- aSplash0fDerp 7y agoInstead of dystopian, I'm surprised they're not calling them stagnant water communities/cities. Cities like Detroit and other areas past their prime did not devolve into madmax scenes, but instead are left with a bunch of toxic funk floating in a cesspool. Definitely not somewhere you'd want to settle down.
- corvuscorvid 7y agoisn't this essentially a 21st century castle?