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Golf enthusiasts looking for a little sun and sea on the side will be in for a treat when the world's first floating course opens in the Maldives. Located five minutes from the Maldives airport, the 18-hole golf course will include luxe accommodation overlooking the green fairways and surrounding beaches. Underwater glass tunnels will serve as linkages between the holes and various facilities, while allowing golfers a fish-eye’s view of the island nation’s glittering reefs. The artificial floating islands will also incorporate cutting-edge green technologies such as water cooling, water desalination and the use of floating solar blanket fields. Developed by Dutch Docklands and designed through a collaboration between golf course developer Troon Golf and Waterstudio.NL, the zero-footprint solar-powered golf course will be one of the first floating developments of its kind, and is expected to bring in a wave of new tourists. ...

In three years, Russia will have the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, capable of providing energy and heat to hard-to-get areas as well as drinking water to arid regions. The unique vessel should be operational by 2016, the general director of Russia’s biggest shipbuilders, the Baltic Plant, Aleksandr Voznesensky told reporters at the 6th International Naval Show in St. Petersburg. The Akademik Lomonosov is to become the spearhead of a series of floating nuclear power plants, which Russia plans to put into mass-production. The floating power-generating unit, aimed at providing energy to large industrial enterprises, port cities and offshore gas and oil-extracting platforms, was designed on the basis of nuclear reactors which are equipped on the icebreakers ships. The technology has proved itself for over 50 years of successful operation in extreme Arctic conditions. The floating power plant is a vessel with a displacement of 21,500 tons and a crew of 69 pe...