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Oil rigs are super fascinating from an engineering perspective. Ironically, outside of space the ocean is probably the most inhospitable environment for man-mad
by michaelscott 6y ago
Oil rigs are super fascinating from an engineering perspective. Ironically, outside of space the ocean is probably the most inhospitable environment for man-made structures to be built where we still want them. Anybody wanting to build platforms/cities/anything else in the ocean would probably do well to start by looking oil rig construction.
- Chris2048 6y ago> Anybody wanting to build platforms/cities/anything else in the ocean For anyone interested I think the term is "Seasteading" And for the SV crowd, a little pie-in-the-sky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueseed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueseed
- bnralt 6y agoThat's an interesting point. The article says that the rigs were bought for $3.5 million each. At that price, it seems pretty obtainable for people interested in creating a floating city at sea to buy a few as a starting point.
- m4rtink 6y agoI'm afraid maintenance costs will quickly eclipse any money saved by buying a second hand rig due to the rather hostile marine environment.
- dghlsakjg 6y agoThat's exactly why they are so cheap. They aren't an asset that you can mothball very easily. You have to either run it or scrap it. I would expect the cost of running them for a year is far more than 3.5 million.
- spyspy 6y agoWe've come full Armageddon.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoAbsolutely back when I worked in Hydrodynamics RnD we built a test rig that could simulate some aspects of that - 21 Cumecs flow rate! (fist time we turned it on its set the alarms of on Cranfield Universities Power supply)