George Petrie

Newsletter, October 2011

Over the last several weeks we’ve enjoyed an explosion of new newsletter subscribers — welcome to our hundreds of new readers! The Seasteading Institute is dedicated to creating diverse, innovative societies on the ocean.

Engineering report released: “Parametric Analysis of Candidate Configurations for Early Seastead Platforms…”

For the past half-year or so, The Seasteading Institute has been toiling away on an engineering study that’s aimed at identifying the most promising configurations for early seastead communities. We’ve looked at three different hull configurations (ship, barge and semi-submersible) in a range of sizes to accommodate as few as 100 to as many as 5,000 seasteaders.