Category Archives: Rethinking Energy & Resources

De-Laocoöning-the-Lagoon: Salvation Engineering for Venice

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The City, the Lagoon, and the Sea

A Proposal to Regenerate the Storied City

Imagine befriending the sea. This could be the key to everything.

In 2020, I wrote the proposal and sent it to Italy, and found a few minutes to publish it today: https://davehuer.com/concepts-for-geo-engineering/de-laocooning-the-lagoon-salvation-engineering-for-venice/

Venice - The Inner Lagoon as Gatun Lake

Venice – The Inner Lagoon as Gatun Lake

Venice is losing the battle to save itself. The challenge is the nature of the location.

Imagine Venice regenerating itself by re-imagining its relationship with the lagoon and the sea.

Imagine re-imagining that nature. Turning the sea into benefit.

The-City-inside-a-Lagoon-inside-a-Lagoon.

An engineered Lagoon City.

Image: Pixabay: Photo by Andy_van_Ahlen: https://pixabay.com/photos/venice-italy-flood-outdoors-6932626/

Technique to continuously develop and improve discovery hypotheses

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One of my British technology advisors told me about Paul Whitewick’s British History travelogues after learning about my love of Time Team. From this, I’ve decided to post this method of hypotheses development for you, my readers, to employ: From the activity of developing hypotheses, I’ve developed a Landscape Economics Analysis (“LEA”) technique. It is under Peregrinations in the Cartoproblematica Navigation Menu: https://davehuer.com/cartoproblematica/hypothesis-development-techniques/ – Proximity of Desire (POD) is linked there also.
 
Hope this sparks new questions that lead to interesting avenues of enquiry.
 

Geo-Engineering Concepts for Arctic Re-freezing

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I’d been thinking for months about ideas to create Arctic refreezing mechanisms. In June 2022, after reading about Sir David Attenborough’s “refreezing the Arctic” project at the Centre for Climate Repair at U.Cambridge, sent the Proximity of Desire framework (link to “B”); and then, after asking whether there was interest, sending the concepts.

Here is the concepts note sent to U.Cambridge [link].