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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread

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To: Crocodile who wrote (3396)5/2/2004 3:51:19 PM
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Dutch Build Amphibious Homes As New Tactic
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Each house is made of lightweight wood, and the concrete base is hollow, giving it ship-like buoyancy.
With no foundations anchored in the earth, the structure rests on the ground and is fastened to 15-foot-long mooring posts with sliding rings, allowing it to float upward should the river flood. All the electrical cables, water and sewage flow through flexible pipes inside the mooring piles.
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