Comments on: Wind-Powered Rotating Skyscraper in Dubai

By: leen

leen — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:09:33 +0000

i love this it is realy nice good luck in the vacatoin

By: zamel

zamel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:34:21 +0000

haha bill.. wer did your money come from? wer does the money come from exactly its all trade.

By: Carole Malvern

Carole Malvern — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:57:44 +0000

Bill: not “our money.” It was our money until we gave it to them in exchange for their oil. Now it’s their money, and they can do whatever they darn well please with it. Just as we are free to do whatever we like with “our oil.”

By: J.P.

J.P. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:42:53 +0000

Less “Oil Money” than you think.
“A majority of the emirate’s revenues are from trade, manufacturing and financial services. Revenues from petroleum and natural gas contribute less than 6% (2006) of Dubai’s US$ 37 billion economy (2005).”

Plus if the thing can provide enough energy to power 5 other buildings around it, and the fact its prefabricated so “moving of resources” consists of shipping prefabricated units to a job site that contains only 80 people and a crane, it will be far greener than any structure its size.

This is a new proposal and could be completed by 2010.

By: brandon lions

brandon lions — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:07:12 +0000

What exactly is “green” about building a city in the desert? The moving of resources to this desolate place would more than make up for any idea of an ecologically responsible place.I smell greenwash all over this.

By: SuperNu

SuperNu — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:44:17 +0000

The project for Dubai was proposed 5 years ago and was canceled. It really is too bad because it was a great proposal.

By: Barbara Dearaujo

Barbara Dearaujo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:05:48 +0000

Nice post. interesting. creative ideas.

By: Alex Ion

Alex Ion — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:56:26 +0000

And probably a new neighbor ?

By: daretoeatapeach

daretoeatapeach — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:26:59 +0000

Neat. It seems also that one added bonus would be that at different times of the day you would have a different view of the skyline.