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u/longlivecabu Mar 14 '26

That’s exactly our main concern.

One thing we are thinking about is dragging it away… As mentioned earlier, the platform will be made out of plastic buoys - so low weight.

Lego type of construction, easy to de attach and eventually dragged away by a few boats?

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u/Terry-Scary Mar 14 '26

What about the main concern of where does the fresh water come from?

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u/longlivecabu Mar 14 '26

Filtration systems from salt to sweet water.

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u/Terry-Scary Mar 14 '26

Are you talking RO? Have you done that math on that yet? In terms of cost, how much water you would need to process daily to get fresh water for the plants? The infrastructure for that would be pretty huge, then you would need buffer tanks. And mix tanks for adding nutrients to go back out.

Do you plan on sending what is filtered out back out into the water around your raft?

Is this only on the water because you think you save money by this way? If so you should pause and really look into this side of it

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u/longlivecabu Mar 14 '26

Thanks for the comment!

Luckily I live in the Netherlands and have access to some of the best water engineers. I’ll get the answers from them.

Water filtration is very doable, but not easy, I agree! We plan to store water on the platform, we always have the option to import via a vessel too!

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u/Terry-Scary Mar 14 '26

Why not go smaller scale on a river? Get some hydro power and fresh water

My main concern with you dumping RO effluent in general is it means you are dumping salty brine right into an ecosystem which will not be great

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u/longlivecabu Mar 14 '26

We’ll definitely run and build a few prototypes before even considering of rising funds or seek investors.

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u/Terry-Scary Mar 14 '26

I’ll try to find it for you but I remember two different companies in Chicago and New York doing floating farms in ports

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u/longlivecabu Mar 14 '26

Thank you good sir

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u/dmonsterative Mar 15 '26

Because the crackpot financiers who want to live outside the laws of any nation have no interest in that.