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polystyrene faces environmental hazards??! seems madness, isn’t I’? but we now have Ideas for recovering coastal communities with lower cost

We are committed to solve some of the most important problems that face coastal communities which are increased storm-, sea-, tidewater and most of the natural disasters Like earthquakes and more that may cause lots of losses which will affect later on Residents of coastal cities and cause huge decline in safety, tourism, economy. So, we decided to solve this problem using multiply techniques:
1- Creating homes out of domes or any spherical shapes that will be constructed by expanded polystyrene which is known for its technical versatility, performance and cost effectiveness. It is widely used in everyday applications where its light weight’ it is comprised of 98% air., strength, durability, The cellular structure of EPS is essentially water resistant and provides zero capillarity, thermal insulation and shock absorption characteristics’ can be protected from sudden temperature changes ‘ provide economic, high performance products and its ease of use in constructing as its It is normally supplied in sheet form however can also be molded into shapes or in large blocks and can be manufactured to almost any shape or size, or it can be easily cut and shaped when required to suit any application.
Since this material has those properties we will use it to build domes and we will put a layer of insulation materials which are rubber and fiber glass then we’ll put a layer of elastic polystyrene to protect the building from corrosion and rust caused by climate change.
2- We all know that mangroves have great functions as they protect shorelines from damaging storm, hurricane winds, waves, and floods. Mangroves also help prevent erosion by stabilizing sediments with their tangled root systems. They maintain water quality and clarity, filtering pollutants and trapping sediments originating from land so they just valuable services for people and the planet, they’re disappearing at an alarming rate and human activity is mostly to blame
3- By knowing that the cuboid its lateral area is included 4 faces what will happen if we evacuate the forth one? So, after the rising sea levels. Water will fill the evacuated cylinder that located under the ground exactly about its second half under the pavement forth face in the water hitting direction. 

The second half that will contain a piston that able to float on the surface of the water pushing the forth face. this pavement will do the work of drain water storm but in the largest scale.

Water needs will be directed to the Water purification plants during the time of floods and the excess amount will be stored.

If our previous ideas were implemented it will affect greatly in the world
1- Coastal communities will be safer. Coastal residents and tourists will finally feel peaceful.
2- No more effects from devastating disasters which will increase the demand for tourism increasing the economic value.
3- The world will be improved by everyone as they will live a normal life with no fears and ecosystem will have more respect from human activities.

We will create an integrated city to resist all natural disasters by:

First: a creative design innovated by us, then we will use a simple material that have many qualities and advantages that distinguish it from other building materials called “polystyrene”.

By using polystyrene, we will build spherical houses which have a great stability so we will protect the places that lie beside the coastal areas from natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes with the lowest possible cost. We will use mangroves tress that protect shorelines from damaging storm and hurricane winds, waves, and floods

To make the building material, we will put a glass layer in the first layer which is a compound of any (insulating glazing) which has a thermal insulation of about 2.5 m ^ 2 × K / W

It protects the rubber from burning because the rubber has an ignition temp between the 260 - 316.

Then we will put a layer of (polystyrene) and finally we will put another layer of glass.

 To make calculate the time the rubber takes to reach its auto temperature ignition we have followed this law:

T(ig)=π/4 kpc ((T(ig) – T(i)) / q”) ^2.

Our target that we hope to achieve is diminishing the losses from the erosion of the coastal buildings and trying to save the mangrove tree from their near predicted extinction, and also we hope that our designed infrastructure system to protect the roads and the buildings in the coastal city from any damage in the case of any disaster like floods or hurricanes. 

As this system will store the water from the floods and will use them latterly, either filtering and converting it to drinking water or in any other fields like generating energy or another water products.

Of course any project needs a lot of improvements and there is nothing ideal, so we think that our solution will be developed by more ideas that will be applied in the next years .

 Of course the technology will take the lion’s share from the development of this project in the coastal areas, moreover the governments won’t need to repair the buildings because they are designed to resist the large percent of humidity in the coastal air near the shore and the infrastructure are designed to salvage the coastal areas from the floods, the hurricanes and the other disasters.

Cause of the damage caused to the buildings, infrastructure, and everything even if it's not a whole damage but a minor damage, so everything stop for a while till we "fix "that damage all the activities like "fishing “, "tourism”, practical life usually in addition to financial and human loss all that needs lots of time and money but why we don't make a system which protects us from the beginning.

 This will cause a stable life, strength for the economic sector, a Variety in activities and decrease of the percentage of immigration.

Our project will serve most of the coastal communities as it's done to suit most of the circumstances of the coastal community especially China as it'll serve near to 45 million person by saving their shorelines in the time of storms and floods.

 But how exactly? Actually it'll save the people by making their buildings resist during the earthquakes by covering these buildings by the polystyrene which can resist during the earthquakes, in addition , new pavements to control the rising sea levels and mangroves protection by roads along the coast.

In China, A maximum coastal retreat of 300 m in one year at the Luanhe River mouth and 25 m for its offshore sandbars.

Rising sea levels set to displace people if earth warms 4 degrees.

So we expected that our  pavement system will help to control the rising sea levels that will serve the 45 million people by saving their shorelines in the time of storms and floods.

Our solution will be completed in 3 years by providing the mangroves protection roads which prevent any encroachment and will restrict the increasing of CO2 that causes the climate change.

We will provide our founders and our sources of profitability with a long-term and complete plan for the coastal city built with the mentioned designs and materials .

 we will put every loss or gain (from all the different aspects) in our consideration, that we will try to persuade the country’s government to choose our specified designs to the coastal buildings, the coastal areas and all of its infrastructure

Our Financial source will be the investment companies (may be tourism ones in the coastal city itself) and the governments of the beneficially countries themselves.

 Imagine if any of the tourism company applied this ideas in the aforementioned designs of their hotels as a real enforcement, there will be no need to make any repairing sessions for these buildings and thus there will be no need for any additional cost at all after building these hotels or any required type of buildings with this design and these materials. 

We think that it will be provision and there will be also profit for these investment companies according to our project plan. 

The world needs us to solve its problems, so we decided to respond to the appeal.

 We thought a lot about how to communicate with the world, we did not find a better solution to achieve our dream and certainly it is linked to MIT University, and we have a dream that we can by the help of our creativity make it true.

 We believe that Solve would help us to advance our idea and help us to make the world know about it as it is a very effective solution  for the coastal communities.

There is a lot of things that makes our solution different.

 The first of all that it covers a lot of points in the challenges that the coastal communities face from the earth quakes, floods and carbon uptake.

 All of this makes our solution successful and applicable as it won’t cost a lot if it is applied.

 Solve could help us by saving mentors and people who are specialized in chemistry as they could help us in making a more advanced prototype to visualize our idea and make it testable for the elevators.