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Floating Houses Designed For Low-Lying Countries

Posted by samzenpus on from the down-the-river dept.

Zothecula writes "Venice may soon be sharing its 'Floating City' moniker thanks to a research project developing 'amphibian houses' that are designed to float in the event of a flood. The FLOATEC project sees the primary market for the houses as the Netherlands, whose low-lying land makes it particularly susceptible to the effects of rising sea levels. Such housing technology could also allow small island-states in the Indian and Pacific Oceans that are at the risk of disappearing in the next 100 years to maintain their claim to statehood through the use of artificial, floating structures."

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  1. uh-oh by RenHoek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Floating houses for low-lying countries?!?

    Do they know something I don't?

    Signed,

        Suspicious, from the Netherlands

    1. Re:uh-oh by Intrepid+imaginaut · · Score: 4, Interesting

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  2. US gov't insurance by __aazsst3756 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A lot of problems would go away if the US would simply get rid of its government flood insurance program. If you want to build a house somewhere its likely to get flooded, and its too risky for a private insurer to cover, and the bank won't loan without insurance... it won't get built. .

  3. Re:landfill by h5inz · · Score: 4, Informative

    What junk? Typical landfill junk decomposition produces dioxins. There is a reason why you don't want your house on a graveyard or a landfill. Also what about the drinking water? I bet the surrounding sea ecosystem wouldn't be overly happy about it either.