With the release of all the engineering documents on our ClubStead page, lots of questions have come up. For example, some people have pointed out that the topside weight and platform load are incompatible, and that there are negative airgaps in some of the big wave scenarios.
We believe strongly in the virtues of transparency, which is why we released the engineering information as soon as we could – right after the patent was filed – even though it isn’t complete.
](https://seasteading.org/strategic-areas/engineering/clubstead)I’ve created a hub for information about our ClubStead hotel/resort design. It contains all the info posted so far, plus a SketchUp model for you to play with.
MI&T has been burning the midnight oil to get this engineering report out.
Hey everyone. We’ve got several new features launching this week, just in time for the traffic from the Wired Magazine article – Live Free or Drown: Floating Utopias on the Cheap.
As I mentioned in the OTC trip report, there is a huge amount of uncertainty in our cost estimates, because we aren’t sure how the expense of a seastead will compare to that of an oil platform. Since we believe that the success of seasteading hinges on whether it can be done at a reasonable price, this will be one of our key areas of research this year.
Patri Friedman’s Trip Report
Offshore Technology Conference
Houston, Texas
May 6-7, 2008.
Wayne had an awesome idea today for a demo device we could build in the Bay, we call it the sea-elevator (sealevator?).
As the project has been getting more active lately, Wayne & I are going to start meeting more on Wednesday’s. We had an interesting design discussion about some of his thoughts on spar construction, Personal Seasteads, and detachable spars. Highlights:
