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Ah, that's pretty clever. It does, however, look massively more expensive than just collapsing the building, probably including the cost of cleaning up any collateral mess or damage. Presumably it's cost effective here though, so what do I know (I imagine, for instance, if you were collapsing that building, you would have to evacuate the nearby buildings for several days around the actual collapse, which could be really expensive in lost business).

Anyways, this is a step closer to Voltron coming, picking up the building, and just hurling it into space to be swallowed by the sun, and I'm all for that bright future.

They said that clearing the debris also generates energy for the other equipment, I'm wondering if the energy generated is enough to sustain the equipment without hooking them up to an outside power source?

bringing the cap down??? what??? doesn't appear to be top down or bottom up, it appears to be, like 6th floor from top, down... can someone explain

Throwing anything into the sun that isnt hydrogen or helium is a bad idea, it would reduce its lifespan, hastening its eventual morph into a red giant, and swallowing earth whole!!

Heh, we can't get people to care about running out of gas in 20 years. I doubt we can get them to care about running out of Sun in 20 Billion (or whatever).

Japan is constantly showing how to get the respect of the rest of the world.

It looks to me that the "cap" is the part that is sticking out a few floors down, and also the stuff above that. It's hard to tell because they designed it to closely resemble the original building, so it is less noticeable. If you look closely at the top "floors" they don't have any windows, like the real floors below the part that sticks out. So when they first started to build "the demolisher" cap, the height of the building+cap probably looked like it grew a few floors.

Nice playstation controller

Recycling of materials might be improved this way as well.

The actual floor level is maybe 1/3 up that collar, everything above that is the Destructo-Matic cap.

If you invested into owning a couple of these, how long would it take to make back the cost if it could recycle the materials AND provide energy? Or does the cost of operation greatly outweigh recycling?

I'm thinking from the perspective of a Terran that wants to sell back a building for a portion of the cost to build it.

Why don't they just have Godzilla knock their buildings down?

They are using idea similar to gravity-lamps.
I doubt it would generate that much power for all the demolition equipment, but I imagine enough for all the lights and possibly ac/fans.