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The Plan to Build an Island Using Only Electricity (youtu.be)
submitted 2 years ago by Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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I was watching this video, and the first thing that came to mind is how interesting it would be to the solarpunk community. It's the story of a professor and his efforts to make a "cybertecture" island by getting coral reefs to grow on-demand.

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[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is actually a long known technique and it currently being trailed for creating artificial coral reefs. The corals themselves also seem to have an easier time growing if assisted by electricity.

[โ€“] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If I understand the video correctly, the professor in question is the one who created the technique and and is behind the coral reef-building, but his ultimate goal was to create entire artificial islands using it, which could act as cybertecture cities at sea.