WAVE-E “Wave Breaker” Contest
Our friends at WAVE- E are running a contest we want to share with you. They’re looking at two of the biggest hurdles for seasteads to move out to the open… Read More »WAVE-E “Wave Breaker” Contest
breakwater
Seasteading Engineering Report: Floating Breakwater and Wave Power Generators
The study is available here (.PDF), and the presentation is available here (.m4v video).
Offshore wave break – Wicked, Dude!
As I was falling asleep and visualizing breakwaters (design, manufacture, and deployment thereof), I thought about how my favored breakwater design works by making the waves pile up and break (as opposed to being a wall that breaks the waves). And suddenly I realized that, if it was deployed in a circle to protect a seastead colony…it would be a never-ending surf break!
