Beddgelert
18-02-2007, 07:18
(OOC: Open to anyone's interest, I'm just trying to keep BG alive, since we've rather slipped off the radar since I moved to Australia. Damn it, we could've been a contender! =) )
With 4,301,140 square kilometres of land and water supporting more than eight and a quarter billion citizens, the Indian subcontinent is an increasingly difficult place from which to support a society with pretentions to communist superpower.
Most Indians live in so-called Pantisocratic Phalansteries, communes to the layman, typically housing around 1,600 comrades each. A standard phalanstery resembles one of two things: Maiden Castle with better plumbing, or Versailles... with better plumbing. These communes are ordinarily surrounded by farmland tended by the residents, and larger state-owned farms also exist between clusters of phalansteries. In addition to these things are university cities where in large factories and, as the name suggests, universities operate twenty-four hours a day but in which there are no permanent residents. Finally there are ancient sites that can not be disturbed, from Hindu temples to lakes with historic and spiritual significance to the Celtic population, and there are vast areas of natural beauty and ecological importance, all of which the Soviets wish to preserve.
New comrades are, according to a new plan agreed in the Final Soviet at Portmeirion, Raipur, to be housed not in new phalansteries but in communal apartment blocks... in the Gulf of Mannar!
A trial city is beginning construction there at an expense of several billions of shillings before serious habitation projects can be approved.
Chhattisgahri iron, some of the finest in the world, is being shaped into structural bars and screens and shaped into blocks towed into position in the gulf. Soviet engineers plan to run a current through these structures to encourage particles in the water to adhere to them, creating a concrete-like material.
Air is to be pumped in and water out through holes in the design as the Commonwealth creates a series of large floating bricks that shall become a city.
The engineering Soviet established to conduct the work intends to experiment with powerplant designs drawing seawater from deep, where it is under high pressure, and from the surface, to mix in a chamber that may end up leading to the turning of a turbine. This proposal was originally put to the Soviets several years ago by delegates from the once-great nation of Wazzu and is yet to be seriously investigated.
It is likely that much power generation will come from solar and wave plants, and the entire floating city, if it is a success, may well be skirted by wave-energy collectors.
With 4,301,140 square kilometres of land and water supporting more than eight and a quarter billion citizens, the Indian subcontinent is an increasingly difficult place from which to support a society with pretentions to communist superpower.
Most Indians live in so-called Pantisocratic Phalansteries, communes to the layman, typically housing around 1,600 comrades each. A standard phalanstery resembles one of two things: Maiden Castle with better plumbing, or Versailles... with better plumbing. These communes are ordinarily surrounded by farmland tended by the residents, and larger state-owned farms also exist between clusters of phalansteries. In addition to these things are university cities where in large factories and, as the name suggests, universities operate twenty-four hours a day but in which there are no permanent residents. Finally there are ancient sites that can not be disturbed, from Hindu temples to lakes with historic and spiritual significance to the Celtic population, and there are vast areas of natural beauty and ecological importance, all of which the Soviets wish to preserve.
New comrades are, according to a new plan agreed in the Final Soviet at Portmeirion, Raipur, to be housed not in new phalansteries but in communal apartment blocks... in the Gulf of Mannar!
A trial city is beginning construction there at an expense of several billions of shillings before serious habitation projects can be approved.
Chhattisgahri iron, some of the finest in the world, is being shaped into structural bars and screens and shaped into blocks towed into position in the gulf. Soviet engineers plan to run a current through these structures to encourage particles in the water to adhere to them, creating a concrete-like material.
Air is to be pumped in and water out through holes in the design as the Commonwealth creates a series of large floating bricks that shall become a city.
The engineering Soviet established to conduct the work intends to experiment with powerplant designs drawing seawater from deep, where it is under high pressure, and from the surface, to mix in a chamber that may end up leading to the turning of a turbine. This proposal was originally put to the Soviets several years ago by delegates from the once-great nation of Wazzu and is yet to be seriously investigated.
It is likely that much power generation will come from solar and wave plants, and the entire floating city, if it is a success, may well be skirted by wave-energy collectors.