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Thursday, 7 April 2011

Oil rig villages

Inhabitat has another proposal for an "aquatic village" made out of an old oil rig.  As usual, it's a Utopia with jet skiing, sail boating, marine researching, swimming, hotelling, and all sorts of tropical good-lifeishnessity. And, of course, it's powered by lovely, Blessed Gaia-pleasing tidal and solar power generators no doubt backed up by rainbows, unicorns, and electricity fairies.

We'll overlook the fact that most rigs today are portable and move to a new site once they've done their job while the stationary ones tend to rust into uselessness in the blink of an eye.  I'm more concerned about the fact that oil rigs tend to be less in the French Riviera and more in the North Sea, which, I can confirm from white-knuckled experience, is less of a holiday spot and more of a very wobbly version of the Alps with gales thrown in for good measure.

Cuts down on the jet skiing, I can tell you.
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3 comments:

  1. IronmistressThursday, 7 April 2011 at 01:44:00 GMT-7

    Seems Mr. Karl Stromberg has gotten his day.

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  2. eonThursday, 7 April 2011 at 04:52:00 GMT-7

    Also, converting oil rigs to playgrounds for the "eco-conscious" elite' at a time when we don't have enough energy to go around seems to me to be rather like cutting off our noses to spite our faces, as my mother would day.

    Either that, or it's the "eco-cool" crowd rubbing our noses in their "(bleep) you, I've got mine" attitude.

    cheers

    eon

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  3. AnonymousThursday, 7 April 2011 at 13:07:00 GMT-7

    Given the "Drop of Roughers" the North Sea generally experiences I have a suggestion. We cpuld replicate the role of the Golgafrincian "B Ark" and get certain people to "prepare" these environments for future occupation... And then leave the entire thing in the Committee stage. The benefits are self evident!

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