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These buildings looks like Xbox 360

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i guess it would be better if they could absorb pollution instead of salty fog

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That’s really ugly, but I must say that the technology is thought provoking. But still very ugly (very temporary design). Yes.

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Umm…salty fog? Not sure what world you all live on or if you just failed high school chemistry, but particulates and heavier minerals do not undergo the phase change that water does when it evaporates until several hundred degrees Fahrenheit. Salt does not evaporate. How do you think the salt flats in the south bay work? The water evaporates, leaving salt and minerals behind.

Now weather our fog is full of industrial pollutants is another questions entirely…

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Good reply on the salty fog question. There are some pretty inane comments here in general. Ugly? not to these eyes, but so what? The project is mostly invisible and not about aesthetics nearly as much as the proposed function of connectivity and alternative energy production that such an infrastructural network could provide. Calle, why would this design kill anyone when the big one hits, (certainly no more than the current buildings or antiquated old buildings left in 100 years)? Its simply a matter of structural engineering for seismic forces — something that was clearly not the focus of the week-long effort for the design competition. Its about the big ideas, people.

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Guys! Fog is not evaporated water (evaporated water is invisible)! It can contain salt and other minerals. And, yes It’s ugly and very dominant.

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Well I say SF needs more daring in its design vision for the built environment, not less (there’s enough mediocrity proposed here every day as is). The designers did say in interviews that personal transport would not necessarily be replaced, just more efficient, put into auto-piloted streams for longer distance travel. And from what I understand, they see both the below-ground and above-ground systems as expandable (grow-able) to fit needs — more bottom-up than top-down.

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“Environmentalists”? and Lovecraft? That’s pretty funny, but way off.

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eventhough this is a way to combat climate change its never goin to happen. nothing will change on this planet as long as theres money to be made. we will not move off of oil as fuel until it runs out, simply because of the greed of the human race. as you can see, the incrase in fule prices has not lowerd demand. think about it all major power companies are making huge profits and demand for oil is still going up!! we need to boicot oil for there to ever be a change and that will never happen.

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