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Introduction I have decided to focus my presentation on a Zero- Emissions City, the city is part of the United Arab Emirates, which is home to the sixth biggest oil reserve. This new city will be “the world’s first car-free, zero- carbon-dioxide-emissions, zero-waste city” ever created. The city will be called Masdar. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

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The Site The City is going to be built on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi City which is situated just 11 miles north-west of Masdar. The investment made by the government of Abu Dhabi was estimated at $15 billion. But only around $4 billion is designated for building the cities infrastructure, it is expected to cost a total of $22 billion. The rest of the investment was from private It is due to be completed in Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

The City The project is to be built in under 10 years (it started in October 2006). It will be home to between 45,000 and 50,000 people. It will have around 1,500 commercial businesses and manufacturing facilities specialising in environmentally friendly products. More than 60,000 workers are expected to commute to that city daily. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

How Its Looking So Far (picture taken on 15/02/2008) Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

Sustainable Development There are a few main factors which make this project fall under the category of sustainable development, these are. How Its Built Its Disposal of waste products The way it makes energy Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

How and what is Built The city its self will be built using traditional materials, such as concrete and steel. The city itself will be no different to other cities, it will have apartments, laboratories but also factories, movie theatres, cafes, schools, fire stations, and so on. The entire city will be built on a platform, it will have seven meter concrete columns that lift it up, this is because it will have a network of automated electric transports that will replace cars. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

Disposal of Waste (Part I) The city planners have also found a way of incorporating waste products into the manufacturing of electricity, they accomplish this by a process called gasification. Gasification is an environmentally friendly way that transforms any carbon based raw material without burning it. Instead you create a chemical reaction by adding high pressure oxygen and steam to the waste materials which breaks the materials down into molecules. This means that you can safely remove any pollutants or impurities. The end result is a clean synthesis gas which can easily be transformed into electricity or liquid fuels. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

Disposal of Waste (Part II) The water management has been planned so that a solar powered distillation plant will be used to provide the cities water needs, they say it will be able to recycle up to 80% of the water. It will be used as many times as possible with the “grey water” being used for crop irrigation and other purposes. Biological waste will be used to create nutrient-rich soil and fertilise, it could also be utilised through waste incineration as an additional power source (Gasification). Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

The Way It Makes Energy (Part I) The way this city makes energy is very unique, it will rely on traditional fossil fuel power stations, combined with solar energy, wind farms, and they will try to utilise geothermal power. It will also make fuel out of the waste that the population of the city create. Garbage will also be used to create fertilizer. The energy this city produces will be more than enough to power this city alone, experts believe that it will be able to sell some of this energy on to neighbouring cities such as Abu Dhabi. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

The Way It Makes Energy (Part II) There will be a vast array of solar panels that will be able to produce more than enough energy to power the city. At the moment the city is only producing 10 megawatts. At the half way stage of construction the solar power plant has been predicted to output between 40 and 60 megawatts of solar electricity. When the city is completed it has been predicted to output up to 130 megawatts of solar energy, as well as producing up to 20 megawatts of wind energy. In addition it also plans to host the worlds largest hydrogen power plant to sustain new hydrogen car technologies. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

Its Rivals There are no rivals that come close to the scale of this city, it has only been limited to a small number of moderate-sized buildings and small communities. Its biggest rival is the Lewis Centre at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA. The Ohio zero-emission project has a floor space of 1,263 square meters. Where as Masdar will cover 6 square kilometres. Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

Backing The city has received backing from the global conservation charity World Wide Fund for Nature and the sustainability group Bioregional. In response to the cities commitment to zero carbon and zero waste the World Wide Fund and Bioregional have endorsed Masdar City as an official One Planet Living Community Click The Left Mouse Button When You Are Ready To Move To The Next Slide

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