Alternative Energy

A great initiative by Abu Dhabi, which has to be appreciated, considering the fact that it comes from an oil producing nation.The article touches upon the aspects of power, transport and reducing cement usage,but it is silent on how this city is going to treat the wastes generated – both bio and solid.

Creating new cities on green principles is a good one, but the real challenge lies in making the existing cities go green

Eco-city?
How about future Eco-disaster?
As in where do they get their food for the greater population they are stimulating?
And what do they do with their wastes?
Not to mention, how will they support themselves after peak oil reduces their developmental income?
The market for sand isn’t all that great…
Greenwashing–nothing more or less.
locoto

Great concept… Best wishes

Of course it may serve difficult for Abu Dhabi to sustain this type of Eco-city considering the fact that it is hard to grow grass in a desert. That being said, this could be shown as an example for energy policy makers in the U.S. We are not going to get away from fossil fuels anytime soon. Many countries have already carefully extracted their own resources to develop their economy, i.e. Norway and Saudi Arabia. Perhaps the U.S. could embrace a policy where the revenues from our own oil reserves could fund the green technologies that have the potential to transform our economy as well.

It’s great to see Abu Dhabi undertaking an eco project like this. But arguably this is a showcase from one of the richest nations on Earth. Maybe the money spent here would be better spent on producing real alternatives to oil, but why would they want to contribute to that policy!

Phil, good view. But, in my opinion money should be spent on population control through preventing the birth of unwanted children and providing financial and social security to those who choose to stay away from producing kids. By the word ‘unwanted’ I mean ‘those kids that are not born out of parent’s intentional efforts but as an effect of intercourse’.
Increase in world population cannot be afforded any more as much more fossil fuels will be burnt. The best solution is to control the root cause of this, that is, increasing population. It takes only a matter of minutes to cause the creation of a human being but the effect of the action results in large scale burning of fuels to meets its needs. Social engineering is the solution. All the efforts on technology would be no use unless stress is placed on controlling population. Encourage people who choose to go without children and spend money on supporting such enabling such a social structure. This will ensure healthy existence to those who live in this world and bring development to a sustainable level.