{"id":14324,"date":"2016-07-16T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14324"},"modified":"2016-07-16T03:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T07:43:20","slug":"floating-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/floating-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Gensler&amp;#39;s proposal for southeast England&amp;#39;s airport expansion. \" width=\"638\" height=\"358\" data-eq-state=\"mini xsmall small medium\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-mini1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-small-11.jpg\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-small-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-full-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Miquel Ros wrote about floating airports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The problem with airports is that they&#8217;re most useful in areas that are the least likely to have space for them &#8211; densely populated urban cities.<\/li>\n<li>But many of the world&#8217;s top cities are also located close to large bodies of open water.<\/li>\n<li>Some people have long been trying to put two and two together and build floating airports.<\/li>\n<li>The technology is there &#8211; after all, we figured out aircraft carriers.<\/li>\n<li>And while a\u00a0floating airport would have to be a lot larger because commercial airliners need a lot more runway, they should be easier to build since they can be stationary and don&#8217;thave to\u00a0be able to conquer territory.<\/li>\n<li>Since such an airport would be built on the water it could power itself using the entirely environmentally friendly power of the waves.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;d have to connect the airport to the land of course, but that could be done through underwater tunnels.<\/li>\n<li>As with most exciting ideas the number one problem is finding an affordable way to make it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/03\/aviation\/floating-airports\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/03\/aviation\/floating-airports\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miquel Ros wrote about floating airports: The problem with airports is that they&#8217;re most useful in areas that are the least likely to have space for them &#8211; densely populated urban cities. But many of the world&#8217;s top cities are also located close to large bodies of open water. Some people have long been trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160630114218-london-britannia-airport2-exlarge-1691.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14328,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions\/14328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}