Abu Dhabi non carbon ambitions
Jan. 23rd, 2008 by Al 
UAE(United Arab emirates) seems to be the buzzword this days with Dubai topping the list for property developments worldwide.This is a series of efforts of breaking away from her economic reliance on the Oil sector to diversify into other sectors as fossil fuel declined beneath her ground.
Abu Dhabi the latest kid on the block seems to not only wants to rival her sister Dubai but wants to go one step ahead in creating a zero carbon city which can accomodate up to 50,000 people on a car free environment.It’s called Masdar City and will be run on Solar energy with automated pods moving people around.
Masdar City once completed in 2013 will showcase to the world that a high standard of living need not be compromised while not leaving any carbon footprint on our planet.While I’m impressed with the efforts made by Abu Dhabi, this seems to give us a false sense of illusion of an eco city fuelled by a robust oil economy.
Indeed Abu dhabi oil is not going away anytime soon as she till hold reserves for more than one century, but Masdar City is not going to be a Solution just a mirage of our modern era pumped up fossil ego.
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