{"id":1174,"date":"2010-05-26T21:39:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2010-05-26T21:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T20:39:46","slug":"water-scrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/water-scrapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Water-scrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move over sky-scrapers, now we have water-scrapers. Power is generated in this self contained underwater city\u00a0using wave, wind and solar power. The city also produces its own food using farming, aquaculture and hydroponic techniques.\u00a0So what keeps the water-scraper upright? It uses a system of ballasts that are aided by squid-like tentacles which also help generate kinetic energy to provide power for the building. Places for inhabitation and work are at the lower levels of this city,\u00a0and\u00a0a small forest on the surface of the structure turns it a shade greener\u00a0while providing space for recreation and leisure .<\/p>\n<p>The underwater sky-scraper\u00a0was designed by\u00a0Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum earning him a special mention in the Evolvo architecture design competition. Should global warming live up to expectations, there may be possibilities for this\u00a0concept that\u00a0turns the idea of a sky-scraper on its head - literally.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the water-scraper try the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolo.us\/competition\/water-scraper-underwater-architecture\/\">Evolvo website <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1192\" title=\"water-skyscraper tentacles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/water-skyscraper-tentacles1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"water-skyscraper tentacles\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over sky-scrapers, now we have water-scrapers. Power is generated in this self contained underwater city\u00a0using wave, wind and solar power. The city also produces its own food using farming, aquaculture and hydroponic techniques.\u00a0So what keeps the water-scraper upright? It uses a system of ballasts that are aided by squid-like tentacles which also help generate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}