Patent CA-2748673-A1 (CA)
Inventor: VOON GERARD
IPC: B63B27/30
Filed: 2011-08-01
Abstract: 1. A very large capacity Reverse Osmosis Unit(s) to filter out pollutants and salt.   2. A reservoir blocked by a dam. Caution should be exercised to build tall waterproof, hurricane proof canal like walls to avoid unfiltered (polluted and salty) water washing into the reservoir if there is a hurricane flood or tsunami (with a floor that can be dug deeper should the sea/ocean water source recede, which is highly unlikely due 3. The dam performs hydro electric functions.   4. A river whose floor is dredged deeper than the reservoir floor behind dam.    5. The river can have more than one such dams.   6. The clean filtered Reverse Osmosis water floor gets deeper and deeper (so the river flows inland).   7. We could stcok the river with fish. A t the far end (inland) of the river could be a huge catchment basin.   8. The river and its clean water (possibly treated with replenishing minerals and other elements like that found in Seachem Equilibrium fish tank products), provides firstly water for agriculture, thus the tie in with Green House High Rise (one of many products of interest is spirulina algae (because algae grown in bio reactors conserves water from evaporation) a very nutrient rich food, also Green House High Rise's roof can collect rain water, the larger roof footprint the better, and also water that flows through Green House High Rise aquaponics and hydroponics (especially the under spray version patented by Gerard Voon) conserve and recycle water since the fresh water river is especially in high demand in dry and drought and lowering water shortage places.   9. Also the river can supply clean fresh water large population centers.   10. Also two canals, shipping lanes, one inland, and the other out to sea could be dug along the same route and the water supplying river stated above, to deliver cruise passengers and cargo ships. Also there might be the odd stop off for the ships (depending on how long the rivers/canal system is) to rendezvous logistically with sites catering to tourists (from restaurants, entertainment, to golf courses) each cruise passenger stop off with their own unique attractions (also bus loops for long distance buses), and for cargo vessels, delivery points to inbetween cutting across the river/canal perpendicular to situated large population sites.   11. An additional possibility is to provide river/canal transport for smaller boats, on the outside edge of the main river/canal system with intermittent marinas of which the marinas offer the boaters reastaurants, entertainment and golf courses.   Ideally the rapid transit can be incorporated with Cruise Ship (with extending/retracting far reaching berths (perhaps to avoid dredging to deeper waters ) and to handle multiple cruise ships, and also traffic lanes between cruise ships, marina (smaller boats, yachts, kayaks, canoes, Venice Gondolas) and also (mostly) passenger ferries (ie. river paddle boats and/or European transparent window tops) from UBC area to False Creek, to Granville Island, to Waterfront and UBC to (possibly) Lonsdale Quay ie.  Horseshoe Bay Marina and Ferries (in West Vancouver) is able to logistically accommodate mix of marina and ferry traffic... except in our case our larger vessels dock on long extendable/retractable berths. A possible name is (Port of Dreams (in reference to Titanic as the Ship of Dreams)...We could also stock the water with crabs from hatchery, salmon, steel head, sole, flounder, cods, sable, sole, sea trout, tilapia, sea bass, dolly vardon... One option (for any and all sea/ocean front properties) is to build high pillars above max flooding levels, and claim land buy building on top of the pillars mixed with surrounding pontoons or best floating devices, and while building expanding our building structures out above water we could separate the water enclosed by our structures from outside water and reverse osmosis and/or ultra violet the water so the water contained by our structures is clean (filtered of pollution)...perhaps even releasing a stream of clean water into the local waters.   A Cruise Ship Catamaran, such that the Ship will need less clearance in water depth. Plus the side ships (customers can walk across to) can be detachable, making it even more bouyant to transfer passengers from anchorage in harbour, to even more very shallow clearance next to shallow berth.