Annabel Scheme
“They put the building together like a Lego set—built it from a palette of just ten different tiny parts. The parts were made of steel and carbon and they could be snapped together in a hundred different ways. They were manufactured in China, and they came into the city by the boatload. The Shard went up, brick by brick, like the pyramids.
Then Grail wrapped the crenelated mass in smooth, curving crystalline panels. The panels gathered and conducted sunlight, then beamed it into the core of ...the building, where it became electricity. The electricity flowed down into motors that spun giant cylinders of solid gray bismuth—the Shard’s flywheel batteries. They were pure engineering elegance: they stored energy and fed it back into the Shard, and they served as gyroscopic counterweights to protect the building from earthquakes. In theory—and of course Grail modeled this—San Francisco could tip up like the deck of a sinking ship and the Shard would stay standing, pointed at the sky.MoreLess
Then Grail wrapped the crenelated mass in smooth, curving crystalline panels. The panels gathered and conducted sunlight, then beamed it into the core of ...the building, where it became electricity. The electricity flowed down into motors that spun giant cylinders of solid gray bismuth—the Shard’s flywheel batteries. They were pure engineering elegance: they stored energy and fed it back into the Shard, and they served as gyroscopic counterweights to protect the building from earthquakes. In theory—and of course Grail modeled this—San Francisco could tip up like the deck of a sinking ship and the Shard would stay standing, pointed at the sky.MoreLess
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