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michael · super moderator Joined: 13 Oct 2007 Posts: 981

Construction work on the world's first zero-carbon city housing 50,000 people in a car-free environment will begin in the oil-rich Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi next month, the developers said on Monday.

In Masdar City, which will be run entirely on renewable energy including solar power to exploit the desert emirate's near constant supply of sunshine, people will be able to move around in automated pods.

"This is a place that has no carbon footprint and will not hurt the planet in any way," Khaled Awad, director of ADFEC.

At the same time the city will offer the highest quality of life possible for its residents," he said on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Once completed in 2013, residents will be able to move around the six-square-kilometre city using a light railway line and a series of automated transport pods.

When money isn't a problem, anything is possible. This is one place I would like to explore and maybe live in, if possible. How about you?

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Midlander · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:00 am Post subject:

I don't see any mosques in that project model! Surprised

Sounds like a step in the right direction, but you wouldn't get me to live in Abu Dhabi even if you paid me!
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