Masdar City Zero Carbon Zero Waste
Masdar City Zero Carbon Zero Waste
Find out about Masdar City in UAE - the world's first zero carbon zero waste city
carbon | recycling | solar | general
Masdar City located just 10 miles from the centre of downtown
Abu Dhabi is being built from the ground up to be the world's first zero
carbon, zero
waste city. Covering 6 square kilometers, and costing US$22 billion, Masdar City will eventually house 50,000 people, and host 1,500 primarily environmentally-friendly businesses. Masdar City is being built by
Masdar - the Abu Dhabi '
Future Energy company which aims to be become a world leader in
renewables.
Features of Masdar City
Within Masdar City, cars will be banned. People will be transported around by a mass transit system.
With its location in the scorching hot desert, and no air-conditioned cars to ferry people around from door to door, the city has been designed with long narrow shaded streets through which breezes blow, and a tall perimeter wall has been constructed to shade the city from the hot desert winds. Traditional Gulf
wind towers will produce energy free 'air-conditioning' and ventilation to keep the interiors of buildings cool.
Powering Masdar City
Masdar City will be self-sufficient in
renewable power. A total of
130MW of
PV solar panels are to be installed on roof tops and at a dedicated solar power plant. Outside the perimeter wall,
20MW of
wind turbine capacity will be installed. Later on solar and wind power will be supplemented by
geothermal power and what will be the world's largest
hydrogen power plant. Masdar City is being designed to be highly energy efficient, using as little as 25% of the power of a typical city of the same size.
Water for Masdar City
Being located in the middle of the desert, providing Masdar City with water is one of the most difficult tasks. A
desalination plant powered by solar energy will be used to get potable water from seawater. After this water has been used, it will be
collected and processed so that it can be used as
greywater for irrigation and so on.
Waste in Masdar City
In order to become a zero waste city, Masdar City will use
waste incineration (which is also an additional power source),
recycle or reuse plastics and metals etc, and food and other biological waste will be
composted to make
fertilizers and rich soils for growing crops to feed the city.
For more Information
Click here to visit the official
Masdar City website.
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