Alexander Bolonkin. Cheap Protection of City and other place from Flood and Hurricane


Natural Sciences / Physics / General Physics

Submitted on: Oct 04, 2014, 16:41:13

Description: Textile storm surge barriers, sited at multiple locations, are literally extensions of the cityâE™s world famous urban fabricâE"another manifestation of the dominance of the man-made city over local Nature. Textile Storm Surge Barriers (TSSB) are intended to preserve the City from North Atlantic Ocean hurricanes that cause sea waves impacting the densely populated and high-value real estate, instigating catastrophic, and possibly long-term, infrastructure and monetary losses. Complicating TSSB installation macro-project planning is the presence of the Hudson and other rivers, several small tidal straits, future climate change and other factors. We conclude that TSSB installations made of homogeneous construction materials are worthwhile investigating because they may be less expensive to build, and more easily replaced following any failure, than concrete and steel storm surge barriers, which are also made of homogeneous materials. We suppose the best macro-project outcome will develop in the perfect Macro-engineering planning way and at the optimum time-of-need during the early-21st Century by, among other groups, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. TSSB technology is a practical advance over wartime harbor anti-submarine/anti-torpedo steel nets and rocky Churchill Barriers used in the UK. --------------------- *Presented in http://arxiv.org on 2007. Key words: Protection of a city, area from flood.

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