Galaxy City Concept Page

This above image is a small version of the much larger panoramic 3d rendering of the Galaxy City design concept model. I was working on a design for a floating city and decided on one that was large enough to be self sustaining and very stable under high wind loads. The centered design allows for very stable wind performance and the 8 sided structure provides for a ultra stable footprint while being very easy to build. I envision Galaxy City as a planned ocean colony ship designed to travel for over 100 years. It would remain in motion moving from one end of the Cayman Trench to the other and on so long as the waters are deep and the surface it warm. It will travel the Caribbean at about 1 KPH and cover 1,200 kilometers in each direction. It will stay in water deeper than 1,000 meters at all times during the 2,400 kilometer round trip. This route will put Galaxy City within rapid transit range of one of the larger Caribbean Islands at all times during its 50 day journey. The Galaxy Ship will be fully energy independent using an on board 30MW OTEC power system. It will be designed to include an added 20MW of power generation capacity provided by a combination of passive and active solar, wind, and wave energy converters. All waste materials from the animal and plant population will be recycled and some even converted into biofuel for energy storage to provide fuel for the service fleet.

The length of the entire structure is 1500 feet on a side at the waterline and sits 220 feet high above the water line. It will have a draft of 30 feet.The water level deck will have 960,000 square feet of deck space. The second floor above water line deck will have 720,000 square feel of deck space. The third floor will have another 240,000 square feet of deck space.

The 1st below water line floor will have 720,000 square feet of deck space. The second floor will have another 240,000 square feet of deck space. The third floor below the water line will have 120,000 of available deck space The deck space per floor in the 8 vertical struts for the ship will have a total of 480,000 square feet of deck space each for a total of 3,840,000 square feet for all 8 of them. The crown unit will provide an added 10 floors to the structure. I need to work more on the area calculation before I publish that.

The 3 stories below the water line will have water view windows. With 22 stories above the water line there will be ample window space for a light airy interior. The construction is conceived as being a unique blend of galvanized steel frame with stainless steel fasteners and galvanized steel framed EPS foam panels that are locked together and to the frame with a tongue and groove system that is both glued and crimped into place.

The panels are then sprayed both inside and out with Grancrete™ a low temperature setting ceramic with a surface etched ceramic micro sphere aggregate for fireproofing and added insulation. The window panels are cast in place resin with a UV resistant dye. The Grancrete™ layer will then be coated with an epoxy and glass micro sphere final topcoat with added PTFE resin added below the waterline for easier cleaning of the structure.

Much like this image shows but using the ceramic Grancrete ™ instead of concrete since it is highly resistant to sun and salt and chemicals. Also I would substitute the use of steel as it is shown in the reinforcement and use the carbon fiber and resin reinforcement which is non rusting and stronger and lighter than an equal amount of steel.

There will be on board service for 64 WIG 'Wing in Ground Effect' boats. Some of these can carry either a ton of cargo or up to 8 passengers. Units like the Sea Falcon a German built WIG boat shown below has a service range of 1100 miles without refueling and can travel that distance in 11 or 12 hours depending of rest brakes. These could provide cargo and passenger service for most of the Caribbean region, providing air service for many hundreds of passengers per day and tons of cargo. They cruise at 100 MPH so they can go back and forth to the nearest Caribbean island several round trips per day if needed.

The city is being designed with security in mind. The windows are not designed to open to the outside and remain sealed at all times. The atmosphere is recycled and plants are grown to provide a balanced oxygen and CO2 ratio. The entire floating city is developed around a 30 megawatt OTEC system. This might not seem like much for a city this large but the OTEC also will provide for natural cooling from the cold sub surface waters being pumped up to the heat exchangers in the OTEC system at the central base of the city. This is also used to produce abundant water from the atmosphere. The surface will have channels at the proper places to direct rain water into cisterns in the base of the structure.

I imagine a total of about 100 of these platforms creating a network of 220 foot tall ocean structures that will be about 50 kilometers apart at any given time. They can all be connected to satellite and download a cache of internet for Caribbean users of the network. The total number of WIG boats for passengers and cargo for a fleet of 100 of these floating cities would be 6,400 in total. That fleet could service passengers cargo and data throughout the Caribbean region.

The map above shows the region that the fleet of these ships would roam. They would alter the weather in the region bringing down the temperature of the surface waters enough to disarm violent storms in the Caribbean permanently. The cooled strip of highly mineralized surface water will also have its own ecosystem that will increase the life of the entire region on an ecological scale. With the combination of communications services, hundreds of shops, shipping of cargo, and passengers throughout the region you can see the potential benefit to having a fleet of these. One to prove the concept should cost under half a billion from my estimates at the moment. It can provide a thousand jobs or more on just one ship. The revenue potential is astounding.

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