Nobody is gonna steal such an original idea..!
A great quote and surprisingly true judging from my own experience..!
Occasionally, when the topic is appropriate, I have tried to promote this idea through news-media comments sections (usually the Telegraph) in the hope of eliciting some feedback – positive or otherwise – from readers. Although this tends to elicit a spike in site visits, only a small handful seem to read any further than the landing page. Whether from lack of interest, lack of imagination, apathy or some other reason, I am mystified. Perhaps most people simply cannot imagine the advantages of living in an enclosed self-contained environment..?
But if they are put off by the thought of too many people in a confined space, then why do so many people go on cruise ships where the people density is perhaps 10x higher and with no safety-valve of an adjacent nature zone? And why do so many people seem to enjoy jetting-off for a hectic weekend in Barcelona, the most densely populated city in Europe – 3x as densely populated as the densest parts of London?
And then there is this website which has been “giving the idea away” since 2012. Admittedly I haven’t done any SEO, which is necessary if you want your website to be high on Google search rankings. But I have always been ambivalent about doing that perhaps due to my FEAR (totally unjustified according to Mr Aiken) that some smart bastard will steal the idea and take all the credit..!
“A website can disappear without trace overnight, but a book is forever..!”
Of the very occasional comments I used to get (before I dis-allowed comments on the landing page), 95% were spam or porn, mostly from Russian sources. Since Ukraine we now know what a bunch of sicko’s they are..! But the other 5% have not been much better. Typically an occasional bland and meaningless remark, e.g., “some good ideas in this blog” (which is not a blog), but NEVER any sensible questions or even any criticism..! I would LOVE to get some constructive criticism – something I can get my teeth into because if I don’t have a good answer, I would love to learn something that I had possibly never thought of ..! EVERY DAY SHOULD BE A SCHOOL-DAY..!
I posted the following comments on a Telegraph story about heat-pumps which received well over 1300 comments. Almost every comment aside from mine received “likes” and many got replies too, but this sad little piggy GOT NONE..!
#1 “The greenest form of energy is energy we don’t need to use”. Why is nobody talking about modular “arcologies”, each housing about 8,000 people (like some cruise ships, but better and much more spacious) the apartments of which will have just one outside wall – or none, if internal and facing onto the atrium – will be car and commute-free, have much simplified and rationalised utility and services provision, and will save 80% of the energy we currently use – all without even trying. And that’s just for starters..! Check-out “Oasis-Cities dot co dot uk” (direct links are not permitted).
#2. Funny that none of the greenies has ever advocated an idea that would, at a stroke, decrease our energy usage by 80%. I am referring to the concept of “Arcologies”, or enclosed cities, and they don’t need to be anywhere near as enormous as those proposed by Paolo Soleri in the ’60’s and ’70’s. Since we now have cruise-ships that accommodate 10,000 people in one hull, what stops us building something similar – but better and more spacious – on land?
Post #2 also got no likes but just this single highly thoughtful and intelligent reply – “You go and live in one – I’m not !”
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