[ExI] THE END for nuclear power (tsunami height)

[Jeff Davis]

Thanks, Damien,

Leave the islands where they are, and build the city just off shore,
on pontoons.

I'm exceedingly fond of pontoons.

jeff davis

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> On 3/25/2011 2:24 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
>> So now we have more, better info on which to base our analysis.  Do we
>> build a 50 foot high dike. a 75 foot high dike, a 100 foot high dike,
>> or move the city?
>
> Are you proposing a Great Wall of Japan along the eastern coast, three or
> four times higher than the Great Wall of China? Might be a striking tourist
> attraction, but it would tend to block the Rising Sun and the Japanese would
> hate that. Then there are the earthquakes. Sever the islands and let them
> float on pontoons, that's my plan.
>
> Damien Broderick
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