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10 innovative ideas that let us live on water

10 innovative ideas that let us live on water

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Photo: Shimizu Corporation

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suzanne.lawson1 08/19/2011 08:38 AM

They said all those great things about council flats.

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Tarrant 08/19/2011 11:38 AM

Welcome Suzanne! Do you live in England?

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jerry Q. 05/10/2011 11:54 AM

All this wonderfull and amazing technology will have no meaning when the power of the cosmos start doing it things and take over the final destiny of each planet in the universe ( what a shame !!!! )

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Green Float botanical city

Shimizu, a Japanese technology company, designed the Green Float concept as “floating cities in the sky” that would be self-sufficient and carbon-negative, allowing mankind to live harmoniously with nature. Each floating cell district has a radius of .62 miles that can house 10,000 to 50,000 people. Joining these districts would form a city of 100,000, and a group of modules would constitute a country. The towers in the center of each district are structured with residences and hospitals at the periphery, offices and commercial facilities in the center, and plants growing along the tower. Carbon dioxide and wastewater from the urban areas become nutrients for the plants, and grains, livestock and fish live along the base and ocean shallows of the tower. Green Float is powered via solar energy, ocean thermal energy conversion and wind and wave technologies, and such cities would be located along the equator where the climate is stable and not prone to hurricanes.
 
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