> The fort’s highlights include ... a sea-view office.
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#24What I find impressive is that he somehow managed to renovate this property for only $2.7M?! Including 350 helicopter trips over two days!
"said the overhaul, which has only been completed this year, cost more than £2 million ($2.7 million)."
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#25> The fort, which is only accessible by sea or air
Being an island, I sort of expected that.
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#26No mention of the freshwater source... line from the shore? Shipped in?
Shipped in surely, everything else would need to be anyway. The flushing toilets etc. mentioned as a challenge probably use a rainwater collection system or perhaps seawater (I'm not sure if the latter's done, desalination probably necessary?).
You can run toilets on seawater just fine, maybe some slightly different seals.
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#27It’s going to be a cold hellhole for half the year
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#28zombie proof as TIL they generally aren't good swimmers. But in a real end of world sitch I think it's from one of those nearby fjordy bits no?
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#29> The fort, which is only accessible by sea or air Being an island, I sort of expected that.
several uk islands are accessible by bridges.
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#30Amazing and only £3 million!? Out of my budget but that's probably about the cost of a normal house in London. Things like this fort make me convinced that automated electric drone taxis could open up a lot of living possibilities. Get one of those and you could turn it into an amazing Airbnb or alternatively a community.
That's a strange conclusion to draw.
There's plenty of open land where people could live without needlessly complicated automated electric drone taxis.