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Japanese Home-Levitation System Could Protect Buildings From Earthquakes
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Japanese Home-Levitation System Could Protect Buildings From Earthquakes
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.01.2012 at 2:09 pm
Instead of building super-strong yet flexible structures to withstand earthquakes, what if you built your house to levitate on a cushion of air? This is already being employed in Japan, a little less than a year after the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country.
The levitation system is the brainchild of a company called Air Danshin Systems Inc., which the Japanese-culture-and-art site Spoon & Tamago says roughly translates to ?anti-seismic.? It was founded in 2005 but has caught on after the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake...
By Rebecca Boyle Posted 03.01.2012 at 2:09 pm
Instead of building super-strong yet flexible structures to withstand earthquakes, what if you built your house to levitate on a cushion of air? This is already being employed in Japan, a little less than a year after the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country.
The levitation system is the brainchild of a company called Air Danshin Systems Inc., which the Japanese-culture-and-art site Spoon & Tamago says roughly translates to ?anti-seismic.? It was founded in 2005 but has caught on after the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake...