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gizmodo.com - 10/18/2008
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Forget the 3,280 feet-high 200-floor Nakheel Tower because it's no longer going to be the highest skyscraper in the world. The new upcoming beast is this amazing 1.55-mile-high skyscraper planned for the Jumeirah City project in Dubai. The building is so tall that its main elevator is in fact a ...
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8184-Feet Tall Dubai Skyscraper
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... Standing 8184-feet tall, this Dubai Skyscraper "is so tall that its main elevator is in fact a vertical 125mph bullet train." Click here for first picture in gallery.
This city-in-a-skyscraper will consume 37,000 megawatts per hour per year, with a 15MWH peak usage, but as the plans show, it has been designed to generate most of it using wind, thermal, and solar power.
[via Gizmodo]
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