Mar 19
The Shams Power Company opened their Shams 1 concentrated solar power station this week in Abu Dhabi. The station generates 100 MW and can power 20,000 homes while reducing CO2 emissions by 175,000 tons per year. The project took about two years and $600 million to build. Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate …
May 26
“LAVA’s winning design for the city centre of Masdar, the world’s first eco city, includes a plaza, five-star hotel, a convention centre, entertainment complex and retail facilities. The entire area is designed as one continuous, spatial, interactive environment – a ‘loop’. The “Oasis of the Future”, a mediated outdoor space, is an open spatial experience, …
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