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Skyscraper design combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park

46 points by Reedx 6y ago

bawana 6y ago
They could get even more traction by adding a blockchain ride.
happytoexplain 6y ago
Tehran concept skyscraper combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park.
graysonpike 6y ago
The article says that the tower is a "self powered sustainable system including generators" and hydroelectric power. It also claims the tower would be disconnected from the grid. I wonder how many generators they expect to use?
- time0ut 6y ago
  Ah, that is simple. You see, the tower is also an over unity system! I mean, that is no less believable than the rest of the design, right?
- duskwuff 6y ago
  Their theory seems to be that they could put a turbine into the water park to generate electricity. Which is obviously nonsense, and a great illustration of why open-ended "design competitions" like this are useless.
  - redisman 6y ago
    Duh, you just use the power generated from the water to pump the water right back up to the top. And to mine crypto. And there's unlimited free cotton candy. Because a 12 year old came up with the concept.
nickff 6y ago
I find these 'design concepts' vexing; they consist of renders of impossible or non-existent materials and technologies. Are they intended as some sort of 'science fiction product designs', or do the creators believe that they can will things into being? And why do the concepts get so much press coverage? I'm sure these renders look great in a portfolio, but as someone who does (a little) industrial design, I find unconstrained designs a bit pointless.
- pm90 6y ago
  Literally the first line of the article: > As an entry to the 2019 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, JCPOA Tower was designed to combine cryptocurrency mining with a water park So it’s a design competition. It would be similar to you asking why teams build autonomous vehicles for the DARPA grand challenges.
  - gaukes 6y ago
    It's like if Stanford brought a picture of an L5 self driving car to the DARPA grand challenge.
    - dkarl 6y ago
      And it's a self-balancing hydrogen fuel cell unicycle.
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- Udik 6y ago
  A vertical water park with cryptocurrency mining facility as a response to an international embargo seems to be an art project. I find it funny and endearing- its absurdity seems to be part of the message.
- svara 6y ago
  I think you're missing the point, it's an elaborate joke to draw attention to Iran's difficulties: > As a way to get around the imposed embargo, mining would have to be done secretly and undercover. Hence, a hybrid type is proposed, a mining farm that is juxtaposed by a vertical water theme park. The water infrastructure hides the hi-tech facility [...] And that's on a public website. No way they're being serious. I think it's pretty funny;)
tathougies 6y ago
You could do this, or you could stop being a theocratic dictatorship? One sounds a lot easier IMO.
- mc32 6y ago
  On the other hand people from all over the world travel to Egypt to experience the product of ancient theocratic regimes.
  - gruez 6y ago
    Is ancient egypt actually considered a theocracy, rather than a monarchy? Also, I think the parent poster's point is that theocracies fell out of fashion a long time ago.
- decafbad 6y ago
  Not even close. What they want is their natural resources. Nobody in USA gives a crap about Iranian people's problems.
  - gpm 6y ago
    This is why the US has sanctioned Norway? As near as I can tell the criteria for the us government getting involved is you have natural resources and you mistreat your people. Neither one alone seems to be sufficient.
    - gruez 6y ago
      >As near as I can tell the criteria for the us government getting involved is you have natural resources and you mistreat your people. Neither one alone seems to be sufficient. the US seems to be pretty chill about saudi arabia, which does have oil and mistreats people. I'm sure the rest of the countries around that region aren't exactly a bastion of human rights either.
      - vmception 6y ago
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vmception 6y ago
at what point is it substantive to say this is dumb
- kanobo 6y ago
  I think the moment the word cryptocurrency was used in the same sentence as skyscraper.
  - bitxbitxbitcoin 6y ago
    Hopefully a nonstupid example of skyscraper and cryptocurrency being used in the same sentence... A skyscraper might not be the safest place to store a cryptocurrency private key - many companies use bunkers instead!
curtis3389 6y ago
Is this a joke? It says that it's "Disconnected From the Power Grid" with "Self Powered Sustainable System Including Generators" and "Taking Advantage of Water Flow for Cooling and Generating Electricity". I can't think of a way that this works in reality. Electricity costs for the servers would be huge, and you still gotta pump water to the top of that tower.
- toohotatopic 6y ago
  Must be rain water, that comes from above.
rjmunro 6y ago
I can't believe this isn't the Onion or something. It was hilarious.
aminozuur 6y ago
It looks cool. But talk and concepts are cheap, I hope they actually build it.
kanobo 6y ago
The idea is stupid af, but the illustrations are really charming and fun.
m3kw9 6y ago
I can imagine broken sewage pipe juices flowing down the circular slides
sanguy 6y ago
So the real reason? Far less likely for the US to Tomahawk a crypto mining organization if it looks like a waterpark and has kids in the structure. In civilized worlds we don't use children as shields.
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  In civilized worlds, we don't fire Tomahawk missiles at crypto mining server farms. But sure, maybe Iran are the bad guys in this hypothetical scenario.
ogre_codes 6y ago
To get this off grid, are they planning on having the guests have to carry a 5 gallon bucket of water every trip and spend 30 minutes on pedal power generators for every lap? Also, if this is supposed to be some kind of covert way to mine crypto... they failed at go.
- Udik 6y ago
  > they failed at go Do you even realise what you're commenting about? A 500 metres tall water park with slides to hide a giant crypto farm to save a country of 80 million from a near total embargo? Come on.
  - vmception 6y ago
    This sounds like one of those procedurally generated Netflix shows .... they are procedurally generated right?
walrus01 6y ago
I chuckled at the number of people in this thread who don't seem to grasp the concept of an intentionally ridiculous or improbably difficult to build architectural concept rendering. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000 Closest real world inspiration I can think of is this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building If you think someone is seriously proposing a 560 meter tall waterpark/cryptocurrency mining tower... I have a bridge to sell you? It's named after the JCPOA nuclear deal, which no matter what side of the issue you're on, has significant follow on effects on Iran's civilian economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...
- bathtub365 6y ago
  It’s really a great political/art piece but it takes reading a few paragraphs of the article to realize it.
- stunt 6y ago
  > I chuckled at the number of people in this thread who don't seem to grasp the concept of an intentionally ridiculous Some people simply don't read the article before leaving a comment. And for others sometimes it's just the challenge of understanding written humor. Humor can be sophisticated, and written humor is more challenging since there is no speaker to make adjustments. You mix that with the fact that many users don't expect to see these kind of articles here in the first place (especially non-native English speakers), and you get a lot of serious opinions about a joke.
ninju 6y ago
Should add "conceptual" or "design of" to the title otherwise it's a bit click-baity
dajohnson89 6y ago
(2019)
lxe 6y ago
Both the headline and the serious tone of the article makes people here very confused thinking this is a real plausible thing that will help Iran's economy.
- z3ncyberpunk 6y ago
  Which says a lot about the intelligence of the YComb community..
mcculley 6y ago
This reads like a headline invented by GPT-3.
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  Or a prompt given to GPT-3 to have it write the rest of the article. Does someone here with access to GPT-3 want to try? Would we know if this was how the linked article was written?

46 points by Reedx 6y ago

bawana 6y ago

They could get even more traction by adding a blockchain ride.

happytoexplain 6y ago

Tehran concept skyscraper combines cryptocurrency mining with vertical water park.

graysonpike 6y ago

The article says that the tower is a "self powered sustainable system including generators" and hydroelectric power. It also claims the tower would be disconnected from the grid. I wonder how many generators they expect to use?

time0ut 6y ago
Ah, that is simple. You see, the tower is also an over unity system! I mean, that is no less believable than the rest of the design, right?
duskwuff 6y ago
Their theory seems to be that they could put a turbine into the water park to generate electricity. Which is obviously nonsense, and a great illustration of why open-ended "design competitions" like this are useless.
- redisman 6y ago
  Duh, you just use the power generated from the water to pump the water right back up to the top. And to mine crypto. And there's unlimited free cotton candy. Because a 12 year old came up with the concept.

nickff 6y ago

I find these 'design concepts' vexing; they consist of renders of impossible or non-existent materials and technologies. Are they intended as some sort of 'science fiction product designs', or do the creators believe that they can will things into being? And why do the concepts get so much press coverage? I'm sure these renders look great in a portfolio, but as someone who does (a little) industrial design, I find unconstrained designs a bit pointless.

pm90 6y ago
Literally the first line of the article: > As an entry to the 2019 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, JCPOA Tower was designed to combine cryptocurrency mining with a water park So it’s a design competition. It would be similar to you asking why teams build autonomous vehicles for the DARPA grand challenges.
- gaukes 6y ago
  It's like if Stanford brought a picture of an L5 self driving car to the DARPA grand challenge.
  - dkarl 6y ago
    And it's a self-balancing hydrogen fuel cell unicycle.
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Udik 6y ago
A vertical water park with cryptocurrency mining facility as a response to an international embargo seems to be an art project. I find it funny and endearing- its absurdity seems to be part of the message.
svara 6y ago
I think you're missing the point, it's an elaborate joke to draw attention to Iran's difficulties: > As a way to get around the imposed embargo, mining would have to be done secretly and undercover. Hence, a hybrid type is proposed, a mining farm that is juxtaposed by a vertical water theme park. The water infrastructure hides the hi-tech facility [...] And that's on a public website. No way they're being serious. I think it's pretty funny;)

tathougies 6y ago

You could do this, or you could stop being a theocratic dictatorship? One sounds a lot easier IMO.

mc32 6y ago
On the other hand people from all over the world travel to Egypt to experience the product of ancient theocratic regimes.
- gruez 6y ago
  Is ancient egypt actually considered a theocracy, rather than a monarchy? Also, I think the parent poster's point is that theocracies fell out of fashion a long time ago.
decafbad 6y ago
Not even close. What they want is their natural resources. Nobody in USA gives a crap about Iranian people's problems.
- gpm 6y ago
  This is why the US has sanctioned Norway? As near as I can tell the criteria for the us government getting involved is you have natural resources and you mistreat your people. Neither one alone seems to be sufficient.
  - gruez 6y ago
    >As near as I can tell the criteria for the us government getting involved is you have natural resources and you mistreat your people. Neither one alone seems to be sufficient. the US seems to be pretty chill about saudi arabia, which does have oil and mistreats people. I'm sure the rest of the countries around that region aren't exactly a bastion of human rights either.
    - vmception 6y ago

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vmception 6y ago

at what point is it substantive to say this is dumb

kanobo 6y ago
I think the moment the word cryptocurrency was used in the same sentence as skyscraper.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 6y ago
  Hopefully a nonstupid example of skyscraper and cryptocurrency being used in the same sentence... A skyscraper might not be the safest place to store a cryptocurrency private key - many companies use bunkers instead!

curtis3389 6y ago

Is this a joke? It says that it's "Disconnected From the Power Grid" with "Self Powered Sustainable System Including Generators" and "Taking Advantage of Water Flow for Cooling and Generating Electricity". I can't think of a way that this works in reality. Electricity costs for the servers would be huge, and you still gotta pump water to the top of that tower.

toohotatopic 6y ago
Must be rain water, that comes from above.

rjmunro 6y ago

I can't believe this isn't the Onion or something. It was hilarious.

aminozuur 6y ago

It looks cool. But talk and concepts are cheap, I hope they actually build it.

kanobo 6y ago

The idea is stupid af, but the illustrations are really charming and fun.

m3kw9 6y ago

I can imagine broken sewage pipe juices flowing down the circular slides

sanguy 6y ago

So the real reason? Far less likely for the US to Tomahawk a crypto mining organization if it looks like a waterpark and has kids in the structure. In civilized worlds we don't use children as shields.

dane-pgp 6y ago
In civilized worlds, we don't fire Tomahawk missiles at crypto mining server farms. But sure, maybe Iran are the bad guys in this hypothetical scenario.

ogre_codes 6y ago

To get this off grid, are they planning on having the guests have to carry a 5 gallon bucket of water every trip and spend 30 minutes on pedal power generators for every lap? Also, if this is supposed to be some kind of covert way to mine crypto... they failed at go.

Udik 6y ago
> they failed at go Do you even realise what you're commenting about? A 500 metres tall water park with slides to hide a giant crypto farm to save a country of 80 million from a near total embargo? Come on.
- vmception 6y ago
  This sounds like one of those procedurally generated Netflix shows .... they are procedurally generated right?

walrus01 6y ago

I chuckled at the number of people in this thread who don't seem to grasp the concept of an intentionally ridiculous or improbably difficult to build architectural concept rendering. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimizu_Mega-City_Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Seed_4000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000 Closest real world inspiration I can think of is this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building If you think someone is seriously proposing a 560 meter tall waterpark/cryptocurrency mining tower... I have a bridge to sell you? It's named after the JCPOA nuclear deal, which no matter what side of the issue you're on, has significant follow on effects on Iran's civilian economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Ac...

bathtub365 6y ago
It’s really a great political/art piece but it takes reading a few paragraphs of the article to realize it.
stunt 6y ago
> I chuckled at the number of people in this thread who don't seem to grasp the concept of an intentionally ridiculous Some people simply don't read the article before leaving a comment. And for others sometimes it's just the challenge of understanding written humor. Humor can be sophisticated, and written humor is more challenging since there is no speaker to make adjustments. You mix that with the fact that many users don't expect to see these kind of articles here in the first place (especially non-native English speakers), and you get a lot of serious opinions about a joke.

ninju 6y ago

Should add "conceptual" or "design of" to the title otherwise it's a bit click-baity

dajohnson89 6y ago

(2019)

lxe 6y ago

Both the headline and the serious tone of the article makes people here very confused thinking this is a real plausible thing that will help Iran's economy.

z3ncyberpunk 6y ago
Which says a lot about the intelligence of the YComb community..

mcculley 6y ago

This reads like a headline invented by GPT-3.

dane-pgp 6y ago
Or a prompt given to GPT-3 to have it write the rest of the article. Does someone here with access to GPT-3 want to try? Would we know if this was how the linked article was written?