A floating city in The Solent

A home for 150,000 people when much of the Island and Hampshire coast is flooded under rising tides.

see it as one solution to house and feed a burgeoning world population, worsened by the loss of dry land through climate change.
"It must be remembered water covers 71 per cent of the Earth’s surface, so it is common sense to colonise the oceans,

Housed on five circular pads, the semi-circular design would include services such as schools and a university, police station, fire station and an airport.

Powered by wave energy and other non-fossil fuels, the island would rest on five concrete pillars, which would be three quarters of a mile apart and about 1,640ft in diameter (500 metres)

But air could be pumped into the bottom of the pillars to make the city buoyant and allow it to be moved with the help of tug boats