Lecturer in architecture Dr. Margot Krasojevic has come up with a concept prison design that floats and produces electricity, ensuring that the prison would be self-sustainable.
The ‘Hydroelectric Waterfall Prison’ would be located in the Pacific Ocean, near the Canadian coast and would sit “atop a floating tension-leg platform tethered to the sea bed”
Seawater would be pumped 165-feet up above sea level into the 425,000 cubic foot prison using excess energy. Releasing this seawater through nozzles on the outsides of the building into floating turbines would produce around 3.2 megawatts of energy.
This is enough to power the prison and an additional 2,000 homes on the mainland.
[via Gizmag]