Water Desalination
Water desalination is the process of removing dissolved minerals and other impurities from seawater, making it safe for human consumption and irrigation. There are several methods for desalinating seawater, each with their own benefits and drawbacks. Reverse Osmosis and Electrodialysis One common method for desalinating seawater is reverse osmosis. The process uses a membrane to filter out impurities and minerals …
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Aquaculture
The current global population is approximately 8 billion now and is expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. Traditional land-based agriculture consumes more than half of all developed land and more than 70 percent of the world’s freshwater resources. Although the ocean covers more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, it produces only 2 percent of the global …
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The Potential of Ocean Resources
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Ben Silone
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March 30, 2023
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The ocean is a vast and seemingly endless resource that has the potential to provide for the entire world’s population. With over 71% of the Earth’s surface covered by water, the potential of ocean resources is to provide all kinds of vital resources for humanity. From food to energy, the ocean has the potential to sustain human life in ways …
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Sustainable Ocean Energy
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Ben Silone
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March 17, 2023
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Sustainable ocean energy is a largely untapped resource that has the potential to provide a significant amount of clean energy to meet the world’s growing demands. Forms of energy such as OTEC, wave, and current can be extracted and used for floating communities, data centers, and even power lines back to land. Hydrogen can also be extracted for boats, cars, …
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Global Tourism
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Ben Silone
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February 15, 2023
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Global tourism has a significant impact on the global economy. It has grown rapidly in recent years and is expected to continue to grow in the coming years. In this blog, we examine global tourism, including its market cap, most popular destinations, percentage of tourism in coastal cities, and countries around the equator with the highest tourism.
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Dome Seastead Design
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Ben Silone
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January 13, 2023
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This dome seastead design is 250ft in diameter and will be constructed using a variation of Ultra High-Performance concrete (UHPC). It will include housing, amenities, communal office spaces, and markets for locally produced and imported goods. Through the incorporation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), Sea Water Air Conditioning (SWAC), water desalination, solar energy, and aquaculture farming, these communities will provide energy, fresh water, and food, all inexpensively produced on and below the seastead.
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University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
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Ben Silone
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November 28, 2022
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Welcome Seasteading community! Seasteading isn’t just about floating homes, these floating communities are about evolving our relationship with each other and with the earth. It’s also about creating a more abundant and efficient world. To help bring Arktide’s vision to fruition, it is necessary to build relationships, collaborate, and produce something new from those collaborations. Rather than doing this on …
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Deep Dive: Puerto Rico
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Ben Silone
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November 22, 2022
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Welcome to our Deep Dive Blog Series. Throughout this series, we will look at different locations around the globe to analyze some of the aspects that make them ideal candidates for the installation of our seasteading communities. These seasteads will be designed to withstand different forces and pressures from natural and man-made environments. Each location has been identified by Arktide …
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Deep Dive: Panama City, Panama
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Ben Silone
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November 7, 2022
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Panama City is the capital of Panama and is located near the Pacific Ocean entrance of the Panama Canal, on the Bay of Panama. The city covers an area of 275 square km (170 sq miles) and has a population of 880,691. The overall metropolitan area has a population of 1.5 million. This makes the population density of Panama City …
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How societies will be organized
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Ben Silone
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October 31, 2022
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Welcome Seasteading community! Seasteading isn’t just about floating homes, these floating communities are about evolving our relationship with each other and with the earth. It’s also about creating a more abundant and efficient world. To help bring Arktide’s vision to fruition, it is necessary to explore and integrate new ways of organizing and operating our communities. One of our most …
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