{"id":4499,"date":"2008-01-21T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/abu-dhabi-is-building-the-firs.html"},"modified":"2008-01-21T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T23:08:10","slug":"abu-dhabi-is-building-the-firs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/abu-dhabi-is-building-the-firs.html","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi is building the first zero-carbon city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=080121221825.159q9tzi&amp;show_article=1&amp;catnum=7\">city is going to be zero-carbon<\/a>, I guess that means there will be no animals and the people will have to walk around with gas masks?And I bet it also means that barbecuing is out, huh?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Construction work on the world&#8217;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.<br \/>\nIn Masdar City, which will be run entirely on renewable energy including solar power to exploit the desert emirate&#8217;s near constant supply of sunshine, people will be able to move around in automated pods.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is a place that has no carbon footprint and will not hurt the planet in any way,&#8221; Khaled Awad, director of the Masdar project&#8217;s property development unit of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC), told AFP.<br \/>\n&#8220;At the same time the city will offer the highest quality of life possible for its residents,&#8221; he said on the sidelines of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<br \/>\nOnce completed in 2013, residents will be able to move around the six-square-kilometre (2.4-square-mile) city using a light railway line and a series of automated transport pods.<br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;re like a horizontal elevator. You just say where you want to go, and it takes you there,&#8221; Awad said of the pods.<br \/>\nUnlike the gleaming towers of nearby Abu Dhabi, a model of the Foster and Partners-designed Masdar City displayed at the summit showed only low-rise buildings with solar panels on each roof.<br \/>\nThe city will be sited to take advantage of sea breezes, and a perimeter wall will protect it from the hot desert air and noise from the nearby Abu Dhabi airport. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so if the city is going to be zero-carbon, I guess that means there will be no animals and the people will have to walk around with gas masks?And I bet it also means that barbecuing is out, huh? 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