Masdar City, The Green City
By Nick January 19, 2008
Monday at World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi will be announced a visionary city which is set to be the most ecological in the world. The conference is financed by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co.’s Masdar Initiave. They plan to begin the construction in February and will have a perimeter of six-square-kilometer.The city will be named Masdar City and it will be able to provide shelter for 47,500 people. The entire construction will be finalized in 10 years, but the first inhabitans will move in beginning with 2009. This project is designed by Foster&Partners, will have zero pollution-rate and zero waste.
The energy necessary for powering the city will be distributed with the help of a solar-photovoltaic power plant. Their vision includes the placement, near the sea and a protector-wall will defend the city from the desert’s hot air and from the disturbances created by the Abu Dhabi Airport.
In the city no car will circulate, so the transportation will be provided by an electric railway system which will be connected to the center of Abu Dhabi. In Masdar City, you will find the headquarters of the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology and they hope to bring there some of the most important green companies in the world.
This is huge step forward for saving the planet and we hope this will encourage all cities in the world to take measures against pollution.
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Such an oil rich country, embracing green energy. I sure wish Los Angeles has a plan to use more renewable energy similar to Abu Dhabi, L.A. needs to be a clean energy visionary city too!
-Deep Patel
http://www.gogreensolar.com
It’s not round? A green city needs to be car free. This has already been thought out.
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Sweden and Iceland are planning to be oil free by 2020. It’s a good idea to reduce dependence on oil now, before it gets really expensive.
To see the oil rich nations taking a sudden interest in renewables in this way must mark some sort of turning point.
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Iceland plans to expand their industry by giving out more tanks with oil than the arabians. They do have oil and gas and they sell it expensive. Their new plant is undersea (and quit sofisticated)because the climate is not warm enough. The oil-gas from the bottom of the ocean goes straight to the mainland.
[...] proyecto para construir la ciudad más ecológica del mundo se presentó el pasado mes de enero en Abu Dhabi. Diseñado por la firma Foster&Partners los [...]
[...] proyecto para construir la ciudad más ecológica del mundo se presentó el pasado mes de enero en Abu Dhabi. Diseñado por la firma Foster&Partners los [...]
[...] first drawings of the green buildings of Masdar City, that zero-waste city of the future concept, were made by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill who designed [...]
[...] ciudad más ecológica del mundo El proyecto para construir la ciudad más ecológica del mundo se presentó el pasado mes de enero en Abu Dhabi. Diseñado por la firma Foster&Partners los [...]
[...] think everybody remembers the Masdar City, the first project of a zero-waste city, that Foster&Partners designed it for Abu Dhabi. Since [...]
Hmm… It’s ironic that Abu Dhabi is building a green city when they’re a producer of oil. I think they should be shaking in mortal fear everytime they hear about energy saving measures.
i think Abu Dhabi has realised the need to conserve our natural resources and start to think of innovative renewable energy resources, to promote sustainable development. i think the rest of the world should follow on Abu Dhabi’s footsteps.
Hi all,
An amazing project i hope i can see it in front of my eyes soon. Good luck for the all project workers. I hope there is another one in Al Ain, because it’s oasis area i think the pollution would be less than a city. As i said before, this project is really awsome and it’ll be a special one from its kind.
My regards,
Salem.H