Maybe Robert Anton Wilson’s predictions regarding life longevity pills will come true in time for us to be around for another 100 years. If so, we’ll be seeing a dramatic change in the way our habitat changes in response to population, energy consumption, and climate change.
Here are five of the wildest contenders for future skylines…
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Pulp Science: Five Future Cityscapes
Japan Building Two Gigantic Solar Power Plants
The city of Sakai, Kansai Electric Power, and Sharp are building two enormous solar power plants, dubbed the “Sakai City Waterfront Mega Solar Power Generation Plan”, by 2010. One facility will have an output of 10,000 kW, while the second plant is planned to produce 28,000 kW. The solar facilities will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by [...]
Picture(s) of the Week: The Lilypad Floating Ecopolis
Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut calls the auto-sufficient amphibious city Lilypad a “floating ecopolis for climate refugees”. The floating structure is “directly inspired by the highly ribbed leaf of the great lilypad of Amazonia Victoria Regia increased 250 times.”
You can read all about it and view an astonishing gallery of the city’s design right here.
Picture of the Week: San Francisco in 2108?
Maybe Robert Anton Wilson’s predictions regarding life longevity pills will come true in time for us to be around for another 100 years. If so, I’d like to see if the city by the bay will in fact look like this…
From Dvice:
The History Channel sponsored a City of the Future contest for architects to show [...]
Gather Around The Air Tree
An eco-friendly structure called the Air Tree is under construction in Madrid, Spain. It is designed to be a social gathering place that generates electricity and cools the surrounding area naturally.
The structure will generate electricity using solar photo voltaic cells. The solar panels will generate enough electricity to sell to local energy companies. But the coolest (pun [...]
