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Humans
could live on floating mini cities in future
Friday November 12, 2010 04:49:05 PM,
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London:
Humans in the future could be living in floating mini cities that
drift across the Pacific Ocean as if on giant water lilies.
The startling new concept has been thought up by Japanese
technology firm Shimizu and is designed to be a way of harnessing
green technologies and creating carbon-neutral cities.
The Green Float concept involves a number of cells, each one
kilometre wide, that house between 10,000 and 50,000 people.
Each individual cell would be free to float on the Pacific Ocean
near the equator but could also be joined together with other
cells to form larger towns and even cities, the Daily Mail
reported here.
A group or modules, a collection of cells, would become a country
in its own right.
Most people in this brave new world would live in a kilometre-high
'City in the Sky' at the centre of each cell. More people would
live in residential areas around the edge of the cell.
The central towers would be surrounded by grassland and forests
and be self-sufficient in terms of food, while livestock and other
farming would take place in 'plains' also surrounding the tower -
all built on a lattice of 7,000-tonne honeycomb pontoons.
The towers would be built from super-light alloys with the metal
deriving from magnesium in seawater, the paper said.
The imaginative plan is designed to create a future carbon-neutral
society and the
Shimizu developers claim that living on cells in this way would
cut carbon emissions by 40 percent.
The floating cells, each with a City in the Sky structure at its
centre, can join together to form larger modules.
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