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anchor solutions for floating structures, lazy station keeping, dynamic station keeping, unsuitable anchor ideas....



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The oil industry is anchoring structures of hundreds of thousands of tons in waterdepth down to 2000m - above are the used solutions...

The cost of the anchor is about 15% of the platform.

A seastead with its less stringent positioning requrements should be fine with spending 7% or much less of the project budget on the anchor.

So the whole idea to "design a project around the anchor solution" is not really a good idea. Anchoring in mid ocean is a "minor cost factor" compared to the cost factor to create the floating platform itself.

The Prelude project ( http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t58944443/prelude-ocean-based-lng-plant/ ) also suggests that anchoring even in conditions of a cyclon category 5 is very feasible with todays anchor technology.

So all the exotic discussion about things like "lazy station keeping" of floating cities, anchoring on a seamount location, etc.ect. are based on "asumption that anchoring in mid ocean is a "mayor challange and unknow frontier" that needs to be solved with innovative ideas  - checking the marine business reality it turns out - it is not.

So i suggest we should stop to discuss about "lazy station keeping" for floating cities, to avoid to shu away investors who want concepts on a "realistic base" we should read up the basics and just come to the conclusion that a seastead will be anchored like anything else in the marine industry with tension anchors and torret mooring. There is not much to discuss about - the discussion is over since the problem was solved to everybodies satisfaction in the seventies.

Exposing the economy of a floating city to a uncertain location is not a good idea.

Floating cities will work like Venice ( Historical example Venice: http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t56710025/venice-italy-how-to-do-instructions-for-seasteading-from-his/ ) which is strongly locked into the grid of marine trade - and far from being far out and disconnected, it works like a marine hub. Wandering over the oceans like the "Flying Dutchman" will not go well with that function.

So destroying the economic potential to save on anchor cable which is a minor cost factor is not a smart approach.

 



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