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Reengineering Elevators Could Transform 21st-Century Cities

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 09 2017, @05:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the wonkavator dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Bytram

In the 160 or so years since the first skyscrapers were built, technological innovations of many kinds have allowed us to build them to reach astonishing heights. Today there is a 1,000-meter (167-story) building under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Even taller buildings are possible with today's structural technology.

But people still don't really live in skyscrapers the way futurists had envisioned, for one reason: Elevators go only up and down. In the "Harry Potter" movies, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and others, we see cableless boxes that can travel not just vertically but horizontally and even diagonally. Today, that future might be closer than ever. A new system invented and being tested by German elevator producer ThyssenKrupp would get rid of cables altogether and build elevators more like magnetic levitation trains, which are common in Japan and China.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-08-reengineering-elevators-21st-century-cities.html

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:51AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday August 10 2017, @10:51AM (#551552) Journal

    I have a footpath, it's like a treadmill but the belt is 25,000 miles long

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:43AM

    by VLM (445) on Thursday August 10 2017, @11:43AM (#551566)

    Hows the HVAC? Where I live the wx outdoors is really nice about 4 months per year. Not so good the rest of the year. I really enjoy hiking but its more of an "extra luxury" when ma nature cooperates, rather than something I do every day more or less before lunch.