Ecoboot

Ecoboot is a concept of a floating city. The idea is from form professor Frits Schoute of Delft University<ref>Universiteit Delft, afscheidsrede 2000, Frits Schoute</ref>

Advantages

Advantages of living at sea, according to Schoute:

• Health
• Weather. Ecoboot can move to better weather
• Space. There is enough space on the North Sea
• Selling knowledge

Ideas

Schoute showed two ideas to make Ecoboot technically feasible.

• Damping waves by a system consisting of 3 tubes that can be opened and closed automatically at the top.
• Damping waves using "clickets". They can also store the energy from waves.

Clickets, Pim van Gennip

References

• Official web site
• TU Delft, project: De Drijvende Stad (Dutch)
• Speech (Dutch)