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Did they include sufficient funds to build the building as a requirement in the contest?
Image 4 :
"The tower also solves the problem of where to bury the elderly, "
I think as a matter of good form it's better to add "when they are dead".
So I like that the canadian coast guard can now stop having to tow loads of icebergs down to mexico to float the elderly out on to die on.
now they get burned alive at the bottom of a dry well. :)
cheers, eh
I heard that the underworld is already occupied. They may object to invaders.
i hope i live long enough to see a moon colony...
"the Hydra skyscraper is designed to harvest power from lightning and store it in giant batteries."
www.weatherimagery.com/blog/harnessing-lightning-power/
Per that link, an average lightning bolt contains about 250 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Unless there is some mechanism to 'attract' ALOT of lightning bolts to the tower, I'm not sure you'd be able to store enough electricity to make it really worth the money it'd cost. If the research, equipment, installation, maintenance, etc cost $100M, you would need something like 1.6M lightning strikes to break even at $0.20 /KWh.