Speaking of moving forward, have you arrived at a ruling on the Triumph and the Articles? I can't find them in threadmarks.
That seems distinctively suboptimal.
I actually think that's unlikely. Now, and post-Collapse.
This actually made me curious enough to check the population of the constituent areas of FCNY:
| New York City's five boroughs | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | Population | Gross Domestic Product | Land area | Density | ||||
| Borough | County | Estimate (2018)[12] | billions (US$)[13] | per capita (US$) | square miles | square km | persons / sq. mi | persons / km2 |
| The Bronx | Bronx | 1,432,132 | 42.695 | 29,200 | 42.10 | 109.04 | 34,653 | 13,231 |
| Brooklyn | Kings | 2,582,830 | 91.559 | 34,600 | 70.82 | 183.42 | 37,137 | 14,649 |
| Manhattan | New York | 1,628,701 | 600.244 | 360,900 | 22.83 | 59.13 | 72,033 | 27,826 |
| Queens | Queens | 2,278,906 | 93.310 | 39,600 | 108.53 | 281.09 | 21,460 | 8,354 |
| Staten Island | Richmond | 476,179 | 14.514 | 30,300 | 58.37 | 151.18 | 8,112 | 3,132 |
| City of New York | 8,398,748 | 842.343 | 97,700 | 302.64 | 783.83 | 28,188 | 10,947 | |
| State of New York | 19,745,289 | 1,701.399 | 85,700 | 47,214 | 122,284 | 416.4 | 159 | |
| Sources:[14] and see individual borough articles |
County | Population 2010 census | % white | % black or African American | % Asian | % Other | % mixed race | % Hispanic/ Latino of any race | % Catholic | % not affiliated | % Jewish | % Protestant | Estimate of % not reporting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race | Ethnicity | Religious groups | |||||||||||
| 2,504,700 | 42.8 | 34.3 | 10.5 | 9.3 | 3.0 | 17.6 | 37 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 33 | ||
| 2,230,722 | 39.7 | 19.1 | 22.9 | 13.7 | 4.5 | 27.5 | 29 | 37 | 11 | 5 | 15 | ||
| 1,339,532 | 73.0 | 11.1 | 7.6 | 5.9 | 2.4 | 14.6 | 52 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 15 | ||
| 1,493,350 | 80.8 | 7.4 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 2.4 | 16.5 | 52 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 11 | ||
Long Island Total | 7,568,304 | 54.7 | 20.4 | 12.3 | 9.3 | 3.2 | 20.5 | 40 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 20 | |
NY State | 19,378,102 | 65.7 | 15.9 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 17.6 | 42 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 16 | |
USA | 308,745,538 | 72.4 | 12.6 | 4.8 | 7.3 | 2.9 | 16.3 | 22 | 37 | 2 | 23 | 12 | |
| Source for Race and Ethnicity: 2010 Census[78][98] American Indian, Native Alaskan, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander make up just 0.5% of the population of Long Island, and have been included with "Other". | |||||||||||||
| Source for religious groups: ARDA2000[82][99] |
The Bronx: 1.4 million
Having FCNY survive because of it's research chops seems as important as it surviving due to it's status as a financial/trading hub.
Hypothetically...would the Current order (or any rising order that isn't us) have any benefit in Destroying New York?
Not sure.
Unlikely. It's supposed to still be a financial hub, in addition to it's research chops.
Ah..soit has the most powerful weapon in the Economic defence Arsenal...the Compound Intrest rates and trade deals.
I can think of a few individuals that would benefit from New York City Strangling under a boot without any real protection.
It's been 40-odd years so things may have changed, but one of the main reasons NYC wasn't occupied by Victorians in the first place was that Alexander laid down the law and forbade the Victorians from doing such a thing.
Duely noted...this was a thought exercise more then anything brought about by new information.
It has first mover advantage and is a relatively neutral location.
The EU have been enthusiastic supporters of FCNY.
Well, remember that New York was in fact disarmed as of game start, beyond small arms in the hands of their police department. I think this may have been deliberately arranged on Russia's part to some extent, because they wanted the ability to credibly threaten New York in case it started getting ideas about reintegrating the United States as a whole.
This is what I meant.
We'll have to agree to disagree about that.
Close to my numbers.
Which gives around 10 billion dollars to produce 300 liters/day for 30 million people.2015 figures said:There are two ways to think about the cost of desalination: the cost of a desalination plant, and the cost of water.
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It does rain, you know
And they'd still need to import a lot of food from Europe and South America.From his perch 10 feet above the ground, he's monitoring two drones—a driverless tractor roaming the fields and a quadcopter in the air—that provide detailed readings on soil chemistry, water content, nutrients, and growth, measuring the progress of every plant down to the individual potato. Van den Borne's production numbers testify to the power of this "precision farming," as it's known. The global average yield of potatoes per acre is about nine tons. Van den Borne's fields reliably produce more than 20.
That copious output is made all the more remarkable by the other side of the balance sheet: inputs. Almost two decades ago, the Dutch made a national commitment to sustainable agriculture under the rallying cry "Twice as much food using half as many resources." Since 2000, van den Borne and many of his fellow farmers have reduced dependence on water for key crops by as much as 90 percent. They've almost completely eliminated the use of chemical pesticides on plants in greenhouses, and since 2009 Dutch poultry and livestock producers have cut their use of antibiotics by as much as 60 percent.
How the Netherlands Feeds the World
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.www.nationalgeographic.com
Don't actually need to eat it, to be honest.
Might be the fusion promise finally bearing fruit, or might just be the mainstreaming of fourth-generation and possibly fifth-generation fission reactor designs. Modular reactors are very much a thing in development today, and the US DoD is going all in on producing portable reactors for powering military bases in places where the power grid is unreliable.
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