{"id":13558,"date":"2010-03-31T08:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T08:10:19","slug":"underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city.php","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Skyscraper: A Self Sufficient City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2581\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/03\/29\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city\/waterscraper-ed02\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2581\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5244e_waterscraper-ed02-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Underwater Skyscaper\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Upside down, self sufficient, floating island cities. The future will no doubt be an interesting place to be, where potentially millions of people will be pseudo-islomaniacs.<\/p><p>Touted as a self-sufficent floating city, Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum&rsquo;s Water Scraper&nbsp;utilizes a variety of green technologies. It generates its own electricity using wave wind, and solar power and it produces its own food through farming, aquaculture, and hydroponic techniques. The surface of the submerged skyscraper sustains a small forest, while the lower levels contain spaces for its inhabitants to live and work. The building is kept upright using a system of ballasts aided by a set of squid-like tentacles that generate kinetic energy.<\/p><p>The architects &ldquo;<em>envision a future where land as a resource will be scarce; it is only natural progression that we create our own. Approximately 71% of the Earth&rsquo;s surface is ocean, even more if climate change has its way, hence it is only natural progression that we will populate the seas someday.<\/em>&rdquo;<\/p><p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/03\/09\/underwater-skyscraper-is-a-self-sufficient-city-at-sea\/\">Inhabitat.<\/a><\/p><div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2583\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/03\/29\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city\/waterscraper-ed06\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2583\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5244e_waterscraper-ed06-150x124.jpg\" alt=\"floating sky scraper\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2582\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/03\/29\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city\/waterscraper-ed03\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2582\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5244e_waterscraper-ed03-150x116.jpg\" alt=\"Underwater floating sky scraper\" width=\"150\" height=\"116\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><dl><dt><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2582\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/03\/29\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city\/waterscraper-ed03\/\"><\/a><\/dt><dd>Underwater floating sky scraper<\/dd><\/dl><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upside down, self sufficient, floating island cities. The future will no doubt be an interesting place to be, where potentially millions of people will be pseudo-islomaniacs.Touted as a self-sufficent floating city, Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum&rsquo;s Water Scraper&nbsp;utilizes a variety of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/underwater-skyscraper-a-self-sufficient-city.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}