If we are going to keep building stuff like this, better energy sources would be handy real soon now...

Agreed Thylan, though they seem to have thought of that:
"Each story of the tower would be shaped like a doughnut and be attached to a center core housing elevators, emergency stairs and other utilities. Wind turbines placed in gaps between the doughnuts would generate electricity."

how do the people inside keep from sticking to the outermost walls?

I don't think we get gravitational forces at .011111 rpm. I suspect you wouldn't even be able to feel it as motion.

hello? Haven't you read anything about this bldg? It will not randomly rotate just for the hell of it. The bldg is designed to take advantage of the desert environment. It will rotate to take advantage of the winds and I doubt it will look like naything in the video except for showing off.

Yes, but the rotation speed, when rotating, will be 90 minutes per one rotation. Which is to say, .011111 rpm.

I think you mean centripedal forces.
Gravity is always present, regardless of speed.

Oh, I wouldn't use centripedal force in conversations like this. I would make my sentence clearer and say, "I don't think we get forces that anyone could confuse with gravity at .011111 rpm." But yeah, I know the physics.

Thylan, I think alternative energy is the whole point. If you watch to the end, it claims that this single tower can produce enough wind energy to supply 10 towers.

^ You're right. somehow I'd missed that part. Comes from sifting/commenting late at night when your sleepy...

damn, it's *dead

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