How Houses Could Float

A new industry of floating infrastructure is emerging to help adapt to rising sea levels. There are two distinct approaches that are being put forth as possible solutions: retrofitting homes to be amphibious and building floating cities.
Amphibious homes can preserve the accessibility of the house and maintain the congenial front porch culture in places like Louisiana, said Elizabeth English, founder and director of The Buoyant Foundation Project.
English's design places a steel frame beneath a house, and then below that, in the crawl space, buoyancy elements. Her team then recommends adding elements to prevent lateral movement so the home will not float away while on the surface of floodwaters.She estimated that a contractor could do such a retrofit for about $20 to $30 per square foot, but cautioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency currently discourages this type of building practice.
Modern floating cities are the brainchild of architect Bjarke Ingels. He told CNBC he hopes his Oceanix City, which is currently slated to be built in the harbor near Busan, South Korea, will be "a city that is the most resilient city you can imagine, but at the same time, the most enjoyable city that you can imagine."
"We really hope that it will be a successful project and we would like to replicate it in other parts of the world," Maimunah Mohd Sharif, executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, told CNBC of the Oceanix development. She said the world must look more into adaptation and hopes that the project can help mitigate or even solve the problem of sea-level rise.
Would you live in a floating city or retrofit your home so it floats during floods? Watch the video above to learn more about what life could be like in these innovative climate change adaptations.
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How Houses Could Float

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  • @AlexanderTurke
    @AlexanderTurke Жыл бұрын

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    @ArthurLedgeeer

    Жыл бұрын

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    @JaykeTurner

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    @AngelsEyes-ny1pc

    Жыл бұрын

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    @JaykeTurner

    Жыл бұрын

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    @AngelsEyes-ny1pc

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @tholam4791
    @tholam4791 Жыл бұрын

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  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    I just like to point out that Florida has had 3 once in a hundred year hurricanes in my lifetime and I'm only 30. That means on a local scale we're dealing with once A hundred Year situations every decade. So they really should call it once every 10 years not once every 100.

  • @c567591

    @c567591

    Жыл бұрын

    Are the 1 in 100 year storms poorly named? (yes) Are the actual historical trends going back centuries known? (almost never) We are using insufficient data and making poor extrapolations from it. Depending where you start the graph, they can show increasing and decreasing trends with the same data, just different starting points. The truth is far more complex than it is made out to be.

  • @madmachanicest9955

    @madmachanicest9955

    Жыл бұрын

    @@c567591 yes you're right they're poorly named. However we've seen an almost continuous increase in the severity of storms and the number of storms being produced every single year for at least the last three soon to be for decades. That means that our records we have now from recent data points so that the scale is dramatically off on our estimates are wrong. We need to use and adjust the scale based on modern data. they haven't done that yet.

  • @diane774

    @diane774

    Жыл бұрын

    It sounds better on the news to say once every 100 years

  • @mikelewis1166

    @mikelewis1166

    Жыл бұрын

    Once in a hundred sounds scary tho. $

  • @peterslegers6121

    @peterslegers6121

    Жыл бұрын

    The scales are off, because of global warming. The earth is getting hotter kzread.info/dash/bejne/mX6osaWMmcTXmLQ.html and that causes more extreme weather patterns. Only fossile fuel industry propaganda says it's something else, but they're false. The once in x amount of time events are used by policy makers to prepare for disaster. Governments are simply not prepared for those larger disasters to happen as often as they're going to be. Is that scary? Yes. But it's more scary to deny it and make things worse.

  • @jeremynuss
    @jeremynuss Жыл бұрын

    You failed to explain how services like gas, water, sewer, and electricity will work in this setup? Are they disconnected when the house floats? If so, how does that work? Or is there some sort of flexible pipe that let's me flush my toilet when the house is floating?

  • @peterslegers6121

    @peterslegers6121

    Жыл бұрын

    Connections to the land are easily done with flexible pipes. Sewerage normally goes through a grinder (so all waste is broken down into small pieces that won't block conduit down the line) and into an onboard tank. From there it is pumped out into a flexible pressure conduit (with back flow stop).

  • @anchorread68

    @anchorread68

    Жыл бұрын

    maybe it will be like the Burj Khalifa situation, there's no sewer line, just a large septic tank that need to be cleared manually by a tanker truck once it's full (and sent to the treatment plant). Sink & overflow will simply drain to the river I guess, maybe there's solid waste collection grill to collect plastic waste, for weekly collection by garbage truck. This will be better than what a cruise ship do at sea, they simply purge septic refuse into the ocean for the fishes, nom nom poop.

  • @jeremynuss

    @jeremynuss

    Жыл бұрын

    @Reptilian Network News So, it's a feature not a bug? Basic info on how to float a house should include obvious things that go along with MOVING a house. That isn't uber technical. It is very basic.

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    Finally 8 minutes in I get to something that doesn't fill me with foaming rage. The floating foundation concept for housing in Louisiana is actually brilliant and a version of it should be implemented just about everywhere. Modifying existing infrastructures also always an easier sell.

  • @c567591

    @c567591

    Жыл бұрын

    It is a interesting concept. We need a full scale test to see how it performs and what drawbacks it will have. Then it can be properly evaluated.

  • @CrunchyBaguette

    @CrunchyBaguette

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s interesting but like what we saw in NJ/NY the question is whether it makes sense to add these retrofits/lifts vs rebuilding a poor quality house. Anyone who has renovated a poorly built house and noticed the issues with code compliance will know that touching those is a can of worms that may be more expensive than a fresh builder grade house.

  • @madmachanicest9955

    @madmachanicest9955

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CrunchyBaguette you're right but that's still no reason to do tests and a few renovations full scale to see how this project works. And based on what I'm seeing it should be come part of the standard building code in areas that can flood especially Louisiana.

  • @seeranos

    @seeranos

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m with you, this focus on building new cities and abandoning current ones is infuriating in how boneheaded, wasteful, and heartless it is.

  • @GetMyNoteLowered

    @GetMyNoteLowered

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @emirgonul9027
    @emirgonul9027 Жыл бұрын

    who knew Kevin Constner's Waterworld was ahead of it's time😀

  • @pongop

    @pongop

    Жыл бұрын

    Very true! Also Armageddon with the DART mission lol

  • @StephenSmith304
    @StephenSmith304 Жыл бұрын

    If they make modular islands, imo they should be more like super blocks with mixed use development to reduce the need to commute between them instead of doing single purpose zoning.

  • @didalouchui2154
    @didalouchui2154 Жыл бұрын

    We already have floating cities, they are called cruise ships. Instead of dismantling those giant ones, just tie three of them together, and retrofit them: one for lodging, one for living, and one for research, and you got a floating city. This design is modular just like the one discussed in 2:17. I just hope they are really tighten down, and don't crash in land during one of those 1000 years events.

  • @saynotop2w

    @saynotop2w

    Жыл бұрын

    Cruise ships stay operational because people pay millions per trip. They are incredibly expensive to operate in general.

  • @seanwalters1977

    @seanwalters1977

    Жыл бұрын

    @@saynotop2w And you think these floating houses are going to be affordable to the common person?

  • @Ahmad-ww4ue

    @Ahmad-ww4ue

    Жыл бұрын

    @@saynotop2w Not only to operate but to build in the first place. Last time I checked, the cheapest was several hundreds million dollars and many cost $1 billion to build. Still, I like the cruise ship idea and it would be great if their cost could somehow be brought down.

  • @Pau_Pau9
    @Pau_Pau9 Жыл бұрын

    *Water World,* *Here we come!*

  • @saynotop2w
    @saynotop2w Жыл бұрын

    Floating infrastructure is by far the coolest, but that also means the most expensive maintenance. I think we should go with earthships.

  • @pastorcoreyadams
    @pastorcoreyadams Жыл бұрын

    Interesting video. I am wondering about tsunamis. Will the floating cities float above the waves? I am thinking of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and March 11, 2011 Japan tsunami. If they were further out to sea they would mitigate some of those issues. The closer to the shore the more risk for tsunamis. It would be interesting to see both a compute model and a physical tank model of a “floating city” next to a shore and how they would handle a large wave. Interesting new industry to watch as well as the retrofitting of houses to float in place.

  • @doaldox

    @doaldox

    Жыл бұрын

    You ever heard of Atlantis?

  • @marcozolo3536

    @marcozolo3536

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes they can be tsunami proof, although the architectural requirements would be much more intensive

  • @jeretso

    @jeretso

    Жыл бұрын

    No you cant surf a tsunami. Tsunami would destroy this city but its better than nothing. When the water retracts or the tsunami warning blows better move to high ground like our ancestors did.

  • @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

    @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

    Жыл бұрын

    Busan has sea walls located to where they would reduce the tsunami waves power in the bay area where these modular islands will be built

  • @aarontaylor1040

    @aarontaylor1040

    Жыл бұрын

    Only if they are positioned in a way that the building follow the receding tide out to see before the Tsunami gathers momentum. The structures won't be very comfortable to live on if they are far out at sea, as it will be no different than a cruise ship I imagine.

  • @jaydibernardo4320
    @jaydibernardo4320 Жыл бұрын

    Me:Great idea! Typhoon: Let's chat,

  • @MrHav1k
    @MrHav1k Жыл бұрын

    I love it!!! Innovation at it's purest.

  • @hikosaemon
    @hikosaemon Жыл бұрын

    Looking at 0:22 I now fear this project will fail because project team members failed to locate Busan properly on a map…

  • @sergiodelatorre7356
    @sergiodelatorre7356 Жыл бұрын

    I like the idea but what I think the biggest issue is that is not addressed is utilities. How are the gas and water lines going to move up and down? That's a big thing that's not addressed in this video.

  • @tuanx

    @tuanx

    Жыл бұрын

    Why would they have gas lines?

  • @sn5301679

    @sn5301679

    Жыл бұрын

    Drinking water and gas is plausible with flexible pipe. The bigger issue is the toilet waste.

  • @LewisJGreyson

    @LewisJGreyson

    Жыл бұрын

    Water distillation stations that are likely part of the islands design.

  • @peterslegers6121

    @peterslegers6121

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sn5301679 Sewerage is again done with flexible pipes. On board all waste water is passed through a grinder that breaks down all waste into small pieces that won't block the conduits down the line. Then there's a waste water tank and a pump with a backflow stop that pushes the waste water ashore (persleiding = pressure conduit).

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    You know as a Floridian I could think of only one theoretical upside to a floating city. And that is if the platform can be towed it can be moved out of the way of major storms. Granted if given the option I just head up River in a houseboat but I'm a sensible person not trying to build a 100 trillion dollar problem to fix a billion dollar one.

  • @ph11p3540

    @ph11p3540

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you have a clue how hard it is to move a half million ton floating structure. It's doable but it takes weeks just to safely maneuver a few hundred miles. It's physically impossible for a half dozen of the worlds most powerful tugs to move such massive structures inside of a few days.

  • @madmachanicest9955

    @madmachanicest9955

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ph11p3540 yes I do understand how impossibly hard moving in entire floating city would be. I think the entire floating city concept is an incredibly stupid egotistical elitist waste of money. if you make it too big to move it all you're doing is creating debris that can be thrown around by a storm surge except this time it the size of a city block. Practically speaking you would need a nuclear powered engine and some kind of variable thrust guided system in an advanced computer system just to be able to control it and the number of places you would be able to park the floating structure itself is extremely limited. But if they can't move these individual building structures they're talking about all they're doing is creating a minimum several hundred ton floating battery ram to crush entire city blocks during a storm surge.

  • @karld1791
    @karld1791 Жыл бұрын

    There are examples of amphibious buildings. Riverboat casinos in the Mississippi River around Vicksburg sit in the river on the bottom in low water and they float held in place by chains in high water.

  • @spooky.-
    @spooky.- Жыл бұрын

    This might be plausible for places like the Netherlands and Singapore who are highly dense and rising sea levels are affecting them but at that point land reclamation is just a much better choice.

  • @gamh03

    @gamh03

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes until its not economic viable. we are getting closer to where sand is much more valuable resources than to make land in the sea.

  • @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

    @HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gamh03 isn't makin land in the sea what sand will be used for?

  • @Student0Toucher
    @Student0Toucher Жыл бұрын

    Wouldn’t a strong hurricane completely destroy a floating house lol or sweep it away into the ocean or something

  • @michaelchristensen2621
    @michaelchristensen2621 Жыл бұрын

    BROAD Group manufactures something they call a B-Core slab. It's a steel panel with very thin steel cylinders inside it. It is used in skycrapers etc. due to its strength whilst using a lot less steel. Each B-core slab contains a lot of air so it can float. Their product brochure shows floating cities. Worth checking out.

  • @tkidd250
    @tkidd250 Жыл бұрын

    The interesting part will be the utilities and the foundation with how it deals with erosion

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    I actually kind of find this very ironic you see traditionally before air conditioning houses in FLorida were built on high ground and where they couldn't be built on a high ground they were built on stilt foundations so that even if the entire area flooded it would have to get to 220 ft of water to get into your house. So the principal the floating foundation house actually makes a lot of sense and is good engineering it's just hilarious because we already had a solution to the problem and up until like the 1940s.

  • @KRYMauL

    @KRYMauL

    Жыл бұрын

    Post WWII housing was a horrible idea, and we never should’ve done it. They literally went away from 10,000 years of trial and error and are blaming Millennials for wanting to do a bunch of ctrl + Z.

  • @TheGruntski

    @TheGruntski

    Жыл бұрын

    In the Florida keys I saw a lot of houses that consisted of a concrete pad with steel posts that supported a house. The house is accessed by a steel spiral staircase, the car is parked underneath on the concrete pad. The steel posts are long enough to be higher than hurricane swell is ever likely to be. It's not complicated and appears to work well.

  • @edwardtobiasen3386
    @edwardtobiasen33868 ай бұрын

    What is to protect these islands from storm surge, strong winds, heavy downpours, and simply big waves

  • @teddymoon3744
    @teddymoon3744 Жыл бұрын

    great idea and COMMON sense.

  • @kineticstar
    @kineticstar Жыл бұрын

    I'm not buying any of this. This is not affordable for all economic levels. What economic advantage or businesses that could be sustained on these platforms? How do you transport the working class into the city with all kind of weather events? This is a 1% utopia that provides no benefits to the general public.

  • @moneyobsessed

    @moneyobsessed

    Жыл бұрын

    the first phones were for the rich only, then by scaling up it became affordable to a lot of people

  • @madmachanicest9955

    @madmachanicest9955

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah the floating city concept feels new with murderous rage. But the amphibious foundation are floating foundation project from later in the video that's something I can get behind that has some legitimate good simple engineering behind it. And it's theoretically cheap enough of a retrofit to become standardized code for a new construction and a required code retrofit for old construction or it can be applied. Namely places like Louisiana and Florida that are guaranteed to flood in warm weather.

  • @adamlreid

    @adamlreid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@moneyobsessed are we just supposed to rebuild all our coastal cities from scratch? talk about pollution

  • @karld1791

    @karld1791

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it’s probably really expensive. There are diagrams of ocean farms growing shellfish and seaweed below and tidal electric generators. People could work in those industries to help pay for the place. It’s hard to see those covering the expense though.

  • @amazon4716
    @amazon4716 Жыл бұрын

    There goes the sunlight for all the plants and creatures underneath those floating structures.

  • @TomNook.
    @TomNook. Жыл бұрын

    Yes. Not by choice though 😅

  • @heinousanus9352
    @heinousanus9352 Жыл бұрын

    Pro tip SK, there's a whole Korea's worth of undeveloped land on your 12 o'clock.

  • @TheOak12345
    @TheOak12345 Жыл бұрын

    How do you deal with waves? I have a possible Category 4 heading towards me on the Florida West Coast - would something like this survive?

  • @_404_chaos

    @_404_chaos

    Жыл бұрын

    if you want natural ones then mangroves, and if its not possible you can build a post or tetrapods that somewhat make the waves weak

  • @captainhickey2608
    @captainhickey2608 Жыл бұрын

    Aztecs did it, chinampas. Worth looking at the example for food growing.

  • @cfltheman
    @cfltheman Жыл бұрын

    If a billionaire invests in something like this, it will be as a tax dodge.

  • @futeramonfuturamet4830

    @futeramonfuturamet4830

    Жыл бұрын

    Taxation is extortion!

  • @ericpham7773
    @ericpham7773 Жыл бұрын

    This help reduce transportation affect on agriculture so no hunger or drought or out of season rhythm of season..because the train and truck hurt agriculture too much could threaten from the potential of disruption

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 Жыл бұрын

    Much more cost effective to just move to high ground. We don't need the 'Waterworld' option.

  • @futeramonfuturamet4830
    @futeramonfuturamet4830 Жыл бұрын

    I could see at least a few of those towns in international waters where people can experiment with different governance systems that are not based on coercion.

  • @tuanx

    @tuanx

    Жыл бұрын

    Except no, international waters are often extremely deep & the costs would be astronomical that it would only realistically become havens for the rich to do & get away with things they'd likely be unable to within a governed nation.

  • @warrentoles3127

    @warrentoles3127

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tuanx that part of the architecture was a joke lol

  • @jasonkoroma4323

    @jasonkoroma4323

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tuanx They've already gotten away with a lot shady stuff already. Being in International waters won't male a difference except for more competitive governance by honest market participants.

  • @louislesch3878
    @louislesch3878 Жыл бұрын

    Um, what about sewer, water supply, and most other utilities buried underground that tie into the house? You didn’t mention any of that stuff?

  • @karld1791

    @karld1791

    Жыл бұрын

    Probably have to use tidal electric power generation, composting toilet systems and water desalination. These all exist though are rare so many issues would have to be worked out at expense. Though I think this projects purpose is to work out all the issues to build floating cities.

  • @louislesch3878

    @louislesch3878

    Жыл бұрын

    @@karld1791 you are right but I was referring to the idea of retrofitting existing houses to make them able to float.

  • @Its-Just-Gizmo
    @Its-Just-Gizmo Жыл бұрын

    It's like the prequel to Water World

  • @drmodestoesq

    @drmodestoesq

    Жыл бұрын

    How come as sea levels rose...the inhabitants of Earth didn't all go to the Himalayas? Did they forget where the Himalayas were? In the future they don't have access to Google maps? They have to rely on a girl's tattooed back?

  • @FedJimSmith

    @FedJimSmith

    Жыл бұрын

    @@drmodestoesq maybe some escaped to the outer space , ie Mars for all we know, and those the couples that's on top of the Everest didn't get the memo

  • @esportsnewstv9554
    @esportsnewstv9554 Жыл бұрын

    We'll, It is a useful, realistic solution and innovation for areas suffering the damage of climate change. As far as I know, this model helps houses stay away from the flood, houses will be higher as the sea level rises, thus protecting people's possessions

  • @dQ-sl6uy
    @dQ-sl6uy Жыл бұрын

    Love it so much there is a lot of material roof membrain tpo can be welded or make new bags that can be inflate under any house traila any city can be flowting high as a big wave allways playin with calm water

  • @thewiseperson8748
    @thewiseperson8748 Жыл бұрын

    House boats have been known for years. What's new in this innovation ? Does this mean that sewage is directly injected into the water; it will become an open sewer around the settlement.

  • @anonguerdoojennifer91
    @anonguerdoojennifer91 Жыл бұрын

    Most intelligent words I’ve heard

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    So basically the first 10 seconds of this video are they all companies going FYGM is a tune of 84 billion dollars in flood damage a year.

  • @omnizen
    @omnizen Жыл бұрын

    I like the idea of "floating homes" along existing coastal areas, but something tells me there could be problems with extending coastal cities into waveless areas such as bays, harbors, deltas, wetlands, marshes, and rivers. To disrupt existing waterways by filling them up with more human habitations does not seem to me a likely beneficial endeavor. Our waterways are already experiencing irreversible destruction. What has happened to the UN recognition of population proliferation as an unhealthy imbalance to earth's resources, organisms, and plant life? I am suspect that there is no mention of sewage treatment or management in this video. Adding nitrogen to the oceans and especially to largely stagnant water collections has deleterious effects, such as blue algae. Nevertheless, I share the excitement about scientifically exploring all these possibilities.

  • @ph11p3540
    @ph11p3540 Жыл бұрын

    You can make concrete structures float. We have successfully built concrete boats, and floating oil platforms from concrete. This big issue is marine concrete construction is very expensive, high maintenance and short lived compared to their land based structures. Such structures only make sense for residential construction when land prices are hyper expensive and everyone is working in high paying high end jobs. These are pipe dream projects much like Palm and World Islands in Dubai.

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    Hey guess what's technically wetlands, the district of Columbia AKA DC the Capitol building of the United States. Miami Florida is a man-made Sandbar built into wetlands. Disney World in Orlando Florida are built on wetlands. The entire freaking state of Louisiana. Most of New Jersey and Long Island were originally wetlands. And several parts of what is now in New York City. Oh also St Petersburg Russia and Moscow are all built on wetlands and technically part of London is also wetlands.

  • @edwincoval
    @edwincoval Жыл бұрын

    As an architect in nyc..great concept but it has limitations and may not be all that economically feasible.

  • @sarak4418
    @sarak4418 Жыл бұрын

    Oh wow

  • @podsmpsg1
    @podsmpsg1 Жыл бұрын

    Back to the Future Part II said we'd have hoverboards by 2015. It's 2022, we still don't.

  • @e.h.4933

    @e.h.4933

    Жыл бұрын

    But they did invent a Star Wars style speeder.

  • @seanwalters1977

    @seanwalters1977

    Жыл бұрын

    Hell, we barely even have consistent electricity anymore

  • @lordjael
    @lordjael Жыл бұрын

    Incredible how floating cities are the topic of conversation when governments can’t even manage money properly for their citizens. 💀 One step at a time, guys. 😂

  • @warrentoles3127

    @warrentoles3127

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you ever heard the phrase "Platforms are stronger than governments "??? It's literally built on a platform 😭😭😭😭😭

  • @seanwalters1977

    @seanwalters1977

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I'm more concerned about our failed and failing infrastructure and electric grid than I am building a play pen for wealthy people that want to have a floating house.

  • @IdOfFanin
    @IdOfFanin Жыл бұрын

    It's gotta withstand rising sea level, flood, hurricanes, and zombie apocalypse since it's near Busan.

  • @navajyotichetia8968
    @navajyotichetia8968 Жыл бұрын

    Angrier and angrier and angrier as the flooding lifted me higher and higher and higher

  • @willcookmakeup
    @willcookmakeup8 ай бұрын

    3 acres for 3,000 people? That seems kind of small

  • @meejinhuang
    @meejinhuang Жыл бұрын

    This won't deal with storm surges. Storm gates need to be built for all coastal port cities.

  • @blackbelt2000
    @blackbelt200011 ай бұрын

    So when the floating house retrofits start to float in a flooding situation, are the plumbing, electrical, gas designed to break off? Still better than losing your entire house, I guess.

  • @chriskim7123
    @chriskim7123 Жыл бұрын

    I'm Korean and didn't know this grand planning was going in action rn 😳

  • @1985toyotacamry
    @1985toyotacamry Жыл бұрын

    I can see this happening

  • @Dwaynekdclarke876
    @Dwaynekdclarke876 Жыл бұрын

    Why is the audio on most CNBC video so low

  • @omnigeddon
    @omnigeddon Жыл бұрын

    The wizard of Oz much? Be in California and get hit with a storm and wake up in Australia lmaoooo

  • @aarononeal9830
    @aarononeal9830 Жыл бұрын

    Cnbc needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees

  • @dQ-sl6uy
    @dQ-sl6uy Жыл бұрын

    Amazing green lands green roof green wals for the middle hose all the houses sealed couted

  • @mendesleiteyuri
    @mendesleiteyuri Жыл бұрын

    "Busan, South Korea", proceeds to show a spot close to Hong Kong instead.

  • @davidkuitunen5286
    @davidkuitunen5286 Жыл бұрын

    Buy a million dollar condo that depreciates like a boat. Great idea.

  • @lowify1
    @lowify1 Жыл бұрын

    This floating city concept reminds me of Volume 3 episode 1 of Love, Death and Robots. Human still end up killing themselves in floating cities.

  • @TransportSimulatorNationTSN
    @TransportSimulatorNationTSN Жыл бұрын

    This looks better than that "The Line" city 😆

  • @lanceluna9781
    @lanceluna9781 Жыл бұрын

    So we can more directly pollute the ocean right?

  • @woltews
    @woltews Жыл бұрын

    no one is talking about water and sewer - those pipes do not move well at all and the angel the pipes are at is extremely critical

  • @Nm-vo3en
    @Nm-vo3en Жыл бұрын

    I am in would love it

  • @boomboominroom
    @boomboominroom Жыл бұрын

    Those city islands sound good in nature but it will be little cities for the rich.

  • @ericphantri96734
    @ericphantri9673411 ай бұрын

    It need wave breaker fence that break large wave and generate electricity

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    3,000 people on four acres of space hell no. I've been much rather be crushed by a tidal wave. Are drowned by the rising sea levels that have to live with that many freaking people crammed into a 4 acre sardine can. I grew up in a 4 acre private lot in a small town in Baldwin it's not that big.

  • @intheuniversekey
    @intheuniversekey Жыл бұрын

    What we should do instead is make floating gardens like the mayans did non water waste Farming. And have fishes in there. chinampa, also called floating garden, small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ancient name for the southwestern region of the Valley of Mexico, the region of Xochimilco, and it was there that the technique was-and is still-most widely used.

  • @pongop

    @pongop

    Жыл бұрын

    Chinampas are amazing!

  • @DisManGotKix
    @DisManGotKix Жыл бұрын

    I like it

  • @unknown9227
    @unknown9227 Жыл бұрын

    HOW CAN I MESSAGE YOU?? I HAVE SOMETHING TO ASK ABOUT AN APPLICATION, PLEASE REPLY

  • @letsgetsocialinfo
    @letsgetsocialinfo Жыл бұрын

    Water world

  • @auro1986
    @auro1986 Жыл бұрын

    will cities that float survive oceanic storms with those big waves?

  • @robertagren9360

    @robertagren9360

    Жыл бұрын

    No, it won't and the weather in the future will be unpredictable. The only way this work is that you build the city in a lake. When the lake expand the city will float on the lake instead of being sunk into the ground. The idea of putting a city at the atlantic ocean is stupid but you can do it at an inland ocean. The idea of putting the city near the sea shore is stupid while we need logistics we should try to improve railroads by building it on a bridge. Rome managed to transport water but we can't figure out how to build a rail on a bridge. As the city expand people will start to settle at the land and the center of the city is a lifeboat. If a disaster would occur only half of the citizens will die.

  • @dQ-sl6uy
    @dQ-sl6uy Жыл бұрын

    Yall can do high floating concrete high wys to floating citys high

  • @Regularcael
    @Regularcael Жыл бұрын

    I laughed so hard when she said they jack the house up a little and the house floats away

  • @Hession0Drasha
    @Hession0Drasha Жыл бұрын

    Having a bunch of these in the chanel and building rapid transit across it like a bridge, excites me.

  • @tyisamess
    @tyisamess Жыл бұрын

    I think it’s okay to let Florida sink. Sometimes nature knows best.

  • @aziris7257

    @aziris7257

    Жыл бұрын

    If Florida Man is any indication, maybe you're right.

  • @TristanSamuel

    @TristanSamuel

    Жыл бұрын

    Theme parks: Are we jokes to you

  • @thesilentone4024
    @thesilentone4024 Жыл бұрын

    Just tell us already go watch water world and thats basically what where doing living on boats like not difficult to say. Also thirsty concrete and cement are a thing it lets water run through it not over it so it lets groundwater recharge not just deplete and dry up to nothing.

  • @sindisophood4319
    @sindisophood4319 Жыл бұрын

    Wat a good idea for us to dirty the ocean that we’ve already polluted

  • @JobPWN
    @JobPWN Жыл бұрын

    "You can't stop the rising sea" as someone from the Netherlands I would disagree with this statement, for now, but it was only after the trauma of the 'Watersnoodramp' of 1953 we understood the need to invest in coastal protection. You would think the US would have responded the same way after Katrina, but your stagnant politics seem to have doomed you to fail

  • @melisboregard
    @melisboregard Жыл бұрын

    Is it not easier to move inlands instead? How is plumbing supposed to work in a house that rises and sinks with the ocean? Will all movable parts not be clogged by mussels. I'm not an engineer so maybe these ar all easy to fix...

  • @karld1791

    @karld1791

    Жыл бұрын

    It’d probably have use composting toilets and ocean farms of mussels , clams and oysters below to filter water effluent. I’ve seen some diagrams with ocean farms and tidal electric generators below and solar desalination above so it isn’t tightly connected to the shore.

  • @_404_chaos
    @_404_chaos Жыл бұрын

    then we pollute the water that we also use to drink? 🤔

  • @leathomsen3884
    @leathomsen3884 Жыл бұрын

    Seems this woman is good at work. How do I get in contact with her

  • @rodoart5257
    @rodoart5257 Жыл бұрын

    Sea Wave formation

  • @madmachanicest9955
    @madmachanicest9955 Жыл бұрын

    I also like to point out that those disaster tables haven't really been updated to account for man-made global warming which is why we're having hundred to 500 year span disasters effectively happening every 15 minutes.

  • @LoveHandle4890
    @LoveHandle4890 Жыл бұрын

    We already have garbage island’s out there tho.

  • @nursevinyl6185
    @nursevinyl6185 Жыл бұрын

    I think one person already did this, somewhere in europe.

  • @thevoyagerguide7183
    @thevoyagerguide7183 Жыл бұрын

    How will these houses manage if there is tsunami?

  • @Ckoudous
    @Ckoudous Жыл бұрын

    No way that these cities won't be a have and have not scenario. There absolutely will be rich ones and poor ones.

  • @jackforshaw4439
    @jackforshaw4439 Жыл бұрын

    If this is a UN project and costs over $100B how much of that is out of the UK budget?

  • @efaoncobbgmailcom
    @efaoncobbgmailcom Жыл бұрын

    Waterworld in the house! 😂👏🏾👍🏾

  • @publicspeaker4009
    @publicspeaker4009 Жыл бұрын

    Houses are heavy, vary heavy.

  • @simonbravo87
    @simonbravo87 Жыл бұрын

    Reminds me of theranos....

  • @simonbravo87

    @simonbravo87

    Жыл бұрын

    If they are worried about their things to be traumatically wiped out just get home owners insurance jeez. Then the cellphone thing....Tesla derping.....

  • @killlamas57
    @killlamas57 Жыл бұрын

    Just like flying cars, im confused. Isn’t a floating house a boat? Just like a flying car is a plane?

  • @TalynWuff
    @TalynWuff Жыл бұрын

    Wow, i'm amazed at how out of options we are for mitigating climate change. Lets just go "waterworld", here we go.

  • @pareshpaul001
    @pareshpaul001 Жыл бұрын

    Please balance weight onto expensive platforms...

  • @ArtDocHound
    @ArtDocHound Жыл бұрын

    Why not?

  • @zweiwing4435
    @zweiwing4435 Жыл бұрын

    If my future baby born in the Flotting City. What citizenship will obtain?

  • @edwincoval
    @edwincoval Жыл бұрын

    All building problems are solvable...if you have enough money!