{"id":33495,"date":"2017-01-15T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/engineers-have-released-plans-for-a-5-km-high-skyscraper-that-eats-smog"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:19","slug":"engineers-have-released-plans-for-a-5-km-high-skyscraper-that-eats-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/engineers-have-released-plans-for-a-5-km-high-skyscraper-that-eats-smog","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Have Released Plans for a 5-Km-High Skyscraper That Eats Smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-have-released-plans-for-a-5-km-high-skyscraper-that-eats-smog.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2017 only just arrived, but one manufacturing company is already looking 45 years into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Arconic, a materials science company, has envisioned a 3-mile-high (4.8-km) skyscraper built from materials that are either in-development or have already been brought to market, including smog-eating surfaces and retractable balconies.<\/p>\n<p>The tower was concocted as part of the company\u2019s larger campaign known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arconic.com\/thefuture\/\">The Jetsons<\/a>, an homage to the 1962 cartoon set in 2062. Arconic\u2019s engineers worked alongside futurists to imagine the technologies that will be most useful several decades from now.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-company-has-released-plans-for-a-3-mile-high-skyscraper-that-eats-smog\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-company-has-released-plans-for...-eats-smog<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 only just arrived, but one manufacturing company is already looking 45 years into the future. Arconic, a materials science company, has envisioned a 3-mile-high (4.8-km) skyscraper built from materials that are either in-development or have already been brought to market, including smog-eating surfaces and retractable balconies. The tower was concocted as part of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65363,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33495\/revisions\/65363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}