The cities of the future will be built under the sea – La Stampa

The city of the future will be built under the sea

 

 The Japanese company Shimizu Corp presented the project “Ocean Spiral ‘, an urban center ready to accommodate up to 5,000 people by extracting energy from the ocean floor it needs

A city buried under a lake in southern China

 
  11/26/2014
 
 

Other than colonies in space, the homes of the future will be into the abyss. This is what promises the Japanese company Shimizu Corp, who presented the project “Ocean Spiral”, a city on the water ready to accommodate up to 5,000 people. The structure includes a floating ball located above the sea surface (and is intended to accommodate apartments, offices and hotels), a series of smaller spheres and a spiral path 15 km long has come up to 4,000 meters below the sea surface. And, according to the project, through this spiral, the modern Atlantis will be able to extract from the sea floor of the energy it needs. The electricity generators placed along the spiral fact produce energy by exploiting the differences in water temperature, while some micro-organisms could be used to transform carbon dioxide into methane. According to the company, to carry out the project will serve about 3 trillion yen ($ 25 billion). The technology needed to build the structure could be ready in 15 years already. Shimizu is not new to ambitious initiatives; in the past has presented plans for a lunar base, a hotel in space and a floating city.

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