A Japanese company, Shimizu Corporation, has presented OCEAN SPIRAL concept for a deep sea city of the future.
The latest plan consists of building a submerged city of concrete, 500m in diameter, with a spherical shell and triangular acrylic plates measuring 50m on each side.
The city would initially be able to fit a hotel, a number of homes, stores, offices, and other facilities, and have an approximate population of 5000, with 4000 permanent residents.
According to the new concept, the city would be sustainable and almost entirely self-sufficient, with ocean thermal energy conversion generating electricity via a heat engine that takes advantage of differences in temperature between water on the ocean surface, which is heated by the sun, and cold deep sea water…
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