2014年12月18日 星期四

幻想的海底城市



Japan's Ocean Spiral proposed as giant underwater city-未來日本的巨大海底城市




What would happen if the legend of the lost City of Atlantis was crossed with the screenplay for Kevin Costner's 1995 hit movie "Waterworld?" <!-- -->
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</br>Maybe something like The Ocean Spiral -- an underwater metropolis which generates its own energy from the seabed, produces food from deep sea aquaculture and is capable of providing accommodation for 5,000 people.


Spiral staircase- 螺旋狀的梯階-an underwater metropolis which generates its own energy from the seabed, produces food from deep sea aquaculture and is capable of providing accommodation for 5,000 people

一座海底城市,從海底產生本身的能源,從深海農場製造食物与可容納5仟人口

Divided into three distinctive zones, the structure will stretch all the way to the crushing black depths 2.8 miles under the sea.<!-- -->
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</br>A giant sphere with a diameter 500 meters (1,640 feet) situated just below the surface will form the first section and house residential zones, businesses and hotels. <!-- -->
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</br>Residents and visitors will enter via the upper level of the facility here.

Divided into three distinctive zones, the structure will stretch all the way to the crushing black depths 2.8 miles under the sea. 

A giant sphere with a diameter 500 meters (1,640 feet) situated just below the surface will form the first section and house residential zones, businesses and hotels. 

Residents and visitors will enter via the upper level of the facility here

分成三個區域性,這個結構延深到海下2.8浬的深度,直徑500米,位在水面下的巨大体有住宅、商業區及飯店。居民與訪客可從上層進來

This inhabited area will be connected to a nine-mile spiral (section 2) that will descend to the seabed where a deep-sea submarine port and factory (section 3) will create the energy required to power the sphere by using micro-organisms found there to turn carbon dioxide into methane.<!-- -->
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</br>Power generators situated along the spiral will then use differences in seawater temperature to create additional energy by applying thermal conversion technologies.

在海底- This inhabited area will be connected to a nine-mile spiral (section 2) that will descend to the seabed where a deep-sea submarine port and factory (section 3) will create the energy required to power the sphere by using micro-organisms found there to turn carbon dioxide into methane. 

Power generators situated along the spiral will then use differences in seawater temperature to create additional energy by applying thermal conversion technologies
這居住區連結到9浬的螺旋管,此管下降至海底,此處有深海潛水艇港與工廠,它能利用微生物將二氧化碳轉成甲烷來發電

沿螺旋管設立的發電機,利用照變化的科技將海水溫度之差來產生額外的能
Shimizu say projects like the Ocean Spiral may be necessary in the future to confront problems such as rising sea levels and the need to create new, clean energy sources.<!-- -->
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</br>According to a statement from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, a national research institute which is providing data to Shimizu for the project, it is vitally important "to promote maritime innovations in areas ranging from the use of marine resources to the deployment of marine biotechnology."<!-- -->
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</br>The agency adds that the research which will have to be carried out to make the Ocean Spiral viable will also "advance our understanding of the sea and earth."

Shimizu has a history of imaginative high-concept projects including a space hotel and floating botanical cities, although none of these have actually come to fruition yet.<!-- -->
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</br>The company says the Ocean Spiral would take five years to build and the technology required to make it a reality will be ready in 15 years.

Funding for what is likely to be a cash intensive exercise will also have to be secured. <!-- -->
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</br>Until such times arrive, however, all we're left with is a series of cool artist renderings to whet (or should that be wet?) the appetite.

At home in the Ocean- 海洋中的住家

12/18/14


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