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Suwon23 · Joined: 24 Jan 2008

So wait... the wind is supposed to move the sections of the building? Each section probably weighs several dozen tons. You would need a freakin HUGE sail on each section for it to move even an inch. You'd be lucky if you could get the different sections to move at all, let alone the frantic spinnong motion of the video. And generating power? Forget about it. You might as well hook up a hydroelectric generator to a bathroom faucet.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

The wind isn't supposed to LIFT them, just spin them. I bet it's possible with some good lubricant.

poet13 · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject:

I think that will a mechanical headstart or "push", the individual floor untis would rotate about the axis quite easily. I think it's a brilliant concept. it's expensive though. They list the prices as 4 to 40 million (I assume) US dollars. They also say 3,000 a square foot. That's a 1300 square foot apartment. That's really really small. Of course for 40 million, you get 13,000 square feet, in which you could house a small tribe, a 7-eleven, and a mini-golf course.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

What's with the maple leaves in the video?

They got many maple trees in that there Dubai? Ones tall as skyscrapers?

poet13 · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:36 am Post subject:

"The last thing you'd want in a highrise is a shit chute with moving joints."

Truer words were never spoken.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

You think all the plumbing is in the middle? What happens when you go in the bathroom and then the building cuts off your exit? I bet they do it my way.

Like I said, it's kind of hard to explain, but you wouldn't moving as in moving around joints, just ones that can spin.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.