No mate, you still dont get it. So the natural unspoilt beauty is only there for your personal pleasure to use as you choose. Cmon mate.
Its there for all to enjoy as it is natural, if you enjoyed the beauty of the ocean you would understand.
Havent heard anyone of the general public say they dont think its a bad idea.
Wait for it,any minute now we will hear the usual spin by developers etc that goes like this. "It will enhance the natural beauty of the location"
My initial reaction was wtf - is this a joke? and you now what? that initial reaction is still the same reaction I have every time I look at that video.
Stick it in a marina or a man made lake - not the ocean!!!
i think if you made it heaps smaller and more out of the way i think less people would be against it . Just wondering what kind of pressure do you need to shoot water that high and how much power is needed
Haha what a silly idea to put it in the ocean, if it was in the middle of a city or some type of main area it would make sense. But randomly in the sea.... It would be fun to see a kiter go threw that jet of water though. If this is to go ahead will you be able to go near it or will it be fenced off and under security. If it sounds as powerful as what it needs to be that would be awesome to jump into it and get shot up into the air!!
Rossco says:
February 4, 2012 at 11:22 am
Bill, it's people like you who have advanced our civilization. Without creativity, imagination and positive energy, we would still be in Africa on all fours picking lice from our fur.
Tks Simon, we are mostly on the same page. The jet is proposed to be located at the shark nets which are already marked with buoys and in an exclusion zone.
Mate, I know many wont like it and you are entitled to your view. Others are also entitled to theirs.
Anyhow mate, this whole process was meant to stimulate discussion and thanks genuinely for your input and that of the other guys.
Time for me to move on.
Rgds
Rossco
Carantoc mate, I wondered the same thing.
Is this just a conceptual visual idea, or is there an engineering and business conceptual study to back it up as well ?
How will it generate its own power and why would it cost nothing ?
Doesn't seem to be much on the web about it.
Was it just an art project for year 6 that got out of hand ?
Carantoc, Thanks for your input but it is negativtity like this that holds the world back. I don't really understand your argument or what you are trying to say.
I suppose we must expect to have to live with idiots, who have nothing constructive to say.
If you can't see the vision, and jhave nothing intelligent to add please shut up and go away.
My daughter painted a picture of a rainbow giraffe. It was a great visual concept. A giraffe, that was rainbow colours. Come -on get on board.
She is 3. She will be 4 when it is her next birthday.
Of all the things one could do in this world to really make a change (solve world hunger, help fight malaria, find a cure for cancer) someone comes up with this idea.
I think this really sums up how ****ed up our society is.
Making a feature to represent something that is 'featureless'. That makes sense.
Why not take it to the next level and build an air geyser to pay tribute to the 'nothingness' of air?
i'm sure if i owned a unit on the beach i would personally congratulate a designer that ensured that enormous amounts of salt spray would coat everyones cars and sliding doors, windows and appliances 24/7 in our predominantly onshore winds!
http://theicongeyser.com/
The website for the apparent attraction that William (Bill) Ross wants to leave the Gold Coast as his legacy but is paid for by local business etc. I thought the video claimed there were no costs.
And the diagram of the proposed setup:
Oh and they also have their bank account details listed incase you want to make a donation towards this project
Also against it - would much rather just watch the ocean and listen to its natural sounds.
If this gets through and gets built, what will be the next one, and the one after that, etc etc etc. High rise was started around the sixties, then each one went higher and higher until mostly no beachside left. Advertising in a light show???
NO THANKS
^^^
Come on - Rossco is just the conceptual artist.
Things like HOW and WHY, well that is for somebody else to work out. If they can't then presumably they failed, but he still succeeded in the conceptual art category.
And if you don't like the art then you are a negative backwards thinking person (apparently).
I guess he got somebody talking though, so maybe he did his job ?
It would be like a giant, vertical jet-ski.....
noisy, showy, smelly, power-hungry, look-at-me, etc etc 
The Captain James Cook Memorial on Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra includes a water jet:
"The water jet is powered by two 560 kilowatt electric motors driving four stage centrifugal pumps capable of pumping up to 250 litres per second against a head of 183 meters. The water velocity at the water nozzle is 260 km/h.
While running both pumps simultaneously the main jet throws approximately six tons of water into the air at any instant, reaching a maximum height of 147 metres."
Surely this is a more appropriate place for colonic hydrotherapy. 
[}:)]
Where I am born there is one since 1886 which used to serve its purpose!!
Bad or not ..
I guess everyone will go to see it erupting 
eventually the wealth of Gold Coast depends of some curiosity of the tourist
coming here for 20.ooo km
I must say I am not totaly against ....
just curious
i think they were being sarcastic
