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tag: boat
Banana Shoes…Banana Boat!
To flood proof Brisbane I have created Banana Shoes! Everyone will walk around with bananas on their feet and when it feels water up to 30cm high, it blows up into a big Boat! SO you will be cruising in … Continue reading
Tagged banana, boat, flood, inflatable, Infrastructure, preparation, School of ideas, sensor, shoes
Help Seeker
What is it? The Help Seeker is a boat that helps people in flood waters. It is operated by a well-trained person. It has rescue, clean up and high technology features. What does it do? The Help Seeker rescues people … Continue reading
Tagged amphibious, arms, boat, clean up, debris, flood, Infrastructure, radar, renewable energy, rescue, robot, rubbish, schoolofideas, technology
House boats on land
We can’t flood proof Queensland because we have no control over the rain, where it goes or how heavily it falls. So what we need to try and do is stop the damage flood water causes. To do this, I … Continue reading
Tagged anchor, boat, build, building, can't, communities, damage, float, flood, house, land, no, resilience, resilienthomes, schoolofideas
Floating boat house
To flood-proof our houses we could build boat bottoms on all our houses so that if it floods, the houses will just float.
Tagged boat, bottom, building, design, floating, house, house boat, resilient homes, schoolofideas