Originally Posted by
wheel
"This is a place that has no carbon footprint and will not hurt the planet in any way," Khaled Awad, director of the Masdar project's property development unit of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC), told AFP.
This is fantastic but I wonder about the "not hurt the planet in anyway." Do they have a proper plan for environmentally-safe construction and disposal of waste from the construction? Do they have proper recycling and waste disposal plans for the residents? Water plan? What will the roads be made from? The homes/buildings? Insulation? Not hurting the planet means even thinking about what you're going to do with batteries. I think this is a
great first step, a
huge first step, but it's just that: a first step.