At some 17 kilometres from Abu Dhabi, in the desert of the United Arab Emirates, an innovative project has been for sometime in full progress, at the cost of 18,000 million dollars, building this first city in the world with zero carbon waste nor leak.
It's called Masdar city, a residential city of the next generation, that will obtain the energy it needs from renewable sources, like solar energy. All vehicles are prohibited, so the residents will have to move around only in magnetic vehicles without drivers. Some enormous receptors of solar energy will collect the sunlight to generate energy and there will be mirrors installed strategically, concentrating the sunlight to heat water and generate electricity. Practically all the resources are recyclable.
This project was born in 2006 and it's first phase has been completed, with several hundreds of volunteers testing out the city. A 45 metre high skyscraper of Teflon (fluorinated resins and protective coating) situated in the centre of the city shows the inhabitants their consumption of energy, red light come on when they have consumed too much. It will be populated by residents and visitors when it's totally completed in 2015.
The central offices of the city will cost 800 million dollars and will be completed in 2013. It will be the 1st ever building in the history that will produce more energy than it consumes. It will be the headquarters of the International Agency for Renewable Energy.
Masdar City is the work of the companies Abu Dhabi Future Energy and the design is of Foster & Partners and Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill.
I found the following photo in a special magazine for future city projects. It looks almost too clean and clinical, but impressive; even though somewhat aseptic by the dull and draped penguin-like figures only dotted here and there; looking more like a religious or health institute.
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