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Imagine a city of 50,000 with no cars, no carbon, no waste, a green city of the future. Now imagine it in the Gulf desert, where summer temperatures can hit 50 degrees and 24-hour air conditioning is a way of life. Reuters
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no matter how you spin it - that doesn't sound like a place to be during summer. How can you have no carbon emissions and air conditioning - or am I just missing it completely?
@ Archi...
From what i gather the whole city will be powered via sun and wind. Thus the air conditioning would be powered through non-carbon sources....
Still hellishly hot..
To me the problem is not how to create a "green" city in the desert. The problem is having that many people living in the desert in the first place. It's a delicate and marginal environment that simply cannot support that many people. Of course stating that people can't live in certain places because of environmental issues is definitely not in vogue.
I think building a "green" city in the desert is a perfect challenge for our times... it will help us to further realize what our possibilities and limits really are. To me it's much smarter than building on good soil which can be used for growing food and forests and providing habitat for non-humans. We have the ability to rehabilitate the land! ... maybe
Greening the Desert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk
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