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Elevators Are Going Green
« on: May 03, 2018, 11:01:55 am »
Elevators Are Going Green
Lifts are becoming more sustainable, as the percentage of the world’s population living in cities grows
 
 
By Adrienne Bernhard
smithsonian.com
April 27, 2018
 

Each day, more than seven billion elevator journeys are taken in tall buildings all over the globe. Considering that half the world’s population live in cities—a number expected to jump to 70 percent by the year 2050—efficient vertical transportation has become a pressing challenge. To keep pace with an influx of urban dwellers and rising sea levels, developers will not only need to build higher, they will also need to devise greener vertical transport: that is, safe and sustainable ways to move residents from the ground up into the sky.

Read more: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/elevators-are-going-green-180968907/#CJlgLHlZrTbSIR4d.99
 
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Re: Elevators Are Going Green
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2018, 11:09:44 am »
Going green, eh?   Does it involve a wheel, rope and manual labor?  Uh... make that...

cheap manual labor.

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