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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
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Groundbreaking has just occurred for Masdar City, a self-contained municipality for up to 50,000 people in the desert next to Abu Dhabi's international airport. The city will be a 2.3 square mile community that will be free of airport noise, free of cars and will produce all of its own energy from sunlight. Khaled Awad, property manager for the project also stated that the community will have their water flow from a solar powered seawater desalinization plant, will have produce provided from nearby greenhouses and all of the communities waste will be composted or recycled.
The city is intended to become a hub for academics and research focused on nonpolluting energy technologies. The first phase, to be completed within two years is the construction of the Masdar Institute, a graduate-level academic research center associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Read the full story at The International Herald Tribune |
