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sonofhendrix (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is so wrong. CARBON SCAM!!! NWO, TRILATERAL COMISSION! Do some research and find out for yourself. Dubais carbon free community is a playground for the rich, nothing more nothing less. Free will never happen because they dont want the public being energy independent! That dose not help the elite.
wageslave001 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ps
Masdar is Abu Dhabi, the world island scheme is Dubai, a different Emirate. It's like blaming New Yorkers for what goes on in Las Vegas.
wageslave001 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'd be curious to know where the figures of 50% more carbon and millions of times more carbon come from. It is important to work out a total carbon footprint, rather than just go play with cute toys, but it's just as important to base criticism in fact, rather than grand statements.
N3buK4dn3ZZ4R (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Yeah, of course, they powered the machinery for building with the solar panels, but the material they are using is much more complicated to produce than usual steel and concrete, and it takes about 50% more carbon to create those materials...
FudgeCicleys (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
no they created the solar panels first so that they used 0 while building too
N3buK4dn3ZZ4R (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I think, the concept is absolutely great, but there are a few points of it, that might make it senseless:
1. What do we use a city for, that we can only plant in a desert, where we have enough sun and wind all day?
2. What do we use a city for, that doesn't produce any carbon, but that uses million times the carbon to be built than a normal city?
3. What krel23 said.
I think, yes, it is absolutely important to improve the system of cities and of transport and stuff, but not like that.
scarab08 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
my sisters friends dad moved from columbus ohio to be in charge of the transportation system. hes ridiculously rich now.
krel23 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
o sure. build a 100% carbon free city. but forget that their world island is dredging up the whole ocean and cause massive damage to the ocean's ecosystem.
hypocrites.
SirBanon (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
It likely will be an eco-community for the rich. but the poor can have permaculture/polyculture to a similiar effect.
VictorConMalvaviscos (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I find the idea proprosed by this is an amazing concept. When Masdar goes live I want to see if people can really rely completely on solar and wind power, and if the city is successful, it would be an amazing jump in integrating modern technology with cities and using it to help the envritonnment as well. |
