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No Carbons Near Me
by West Virginia Rebel

Let’s see Al Gore complain about this.

One of the world’s largest oil producers has begun construction on the first zero-carbon city, powered entirely by renewable energy.

Officials from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, touted plans for a $22 billion development known as the Masdar Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, US, on 5 May.

“This is going to create huge business and research opportunities to get beyond where we are today,” says Khaled Awad, of the government-owned Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company.

UAE is the third-largest oil exporting country in the world and sits on 10% of the planet’s known oil reserves. Awad, however, sees the city, which will house an alternative energy research institute, as an investment in alternative energies that will eventually replace oil.

Narrow streets

“For Abu Dhabi to maintain its market share in energy, it must develop other forms of energy,” he says.

All those eeeevil oil dollars, being used to create...an environmentally-friendly city. Watch the environmentalist heads begin to explode.

Posted by West Virginia Rebel on 05/09/08 at 03:18 PM (Discuss this in the forums)