Building the Zero-Emissions City

The irony, of course, is that this zero-emissions city is financed by oil profits. Like the tobacco industry financing lung cancer research...

No one would even dare to try something this ambitious in the US - and that's if they could even obtain the funding, which they couldn't because corporate America would never finance it.  But Abu Dhabi - an anarcho-capitalist feudal state smack in the middle of Islam Central - is making us look backward and conservative.  I wish this bothered more people, because it bothers me.  We should applaud Abu Dhabi for being this ambitious...and then outdo them spectacularly.  But, of course, we won't.  It makes me ill.

Hysterical is how I describe the opinions that you all have on a wonderful work like MASDAR CITY.  I guess not many of you have ever been to Abu Dhabi or Dubai.  Sure, Abu Dhabi is using its so called 'oil' money to do 'extraordinary' stuff like making a city that'll serve the future generations.  It is very comforting to know that it isn't using this money to develop its defense arsenal or become nuclear!  If US were to divert even a fragment of its defence budget, it would end up probably creating multiple cities of similar kind.    Finally, how can one be so naive to over look the fact that the OIL is being demanded by the customers.  Oil companies are NOT forcing you to drive you cars.   I guess if you really care for the environment, you should STOP driving the cars and the oil rich countries will STOP selling OIL.

The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, addressing the World Future Energy Conference earlier this year said: "The problem of climate change is so grave and urgent that we have less than 10 years to slow, stop and, indeed, reverse greenhouse gas emissions." Masdar is his baby.

An abundant, renewable, inexpensive, energy source, never before commercialized, is under development. This revolutionary breakthrough can enable the rapid reduction of the need for fossil and uranium fuels.

Conversion of what he called "space energy" by means of a solid-state device was demonstrated in Germany by Hans Coler in 1926. The following year Nobel physicist Werner Heisenberg stated: "We could utilize magnetism as an energy source."

Coler later built a 6 kW generator, which he displayed in 1937. Six years later the Nazi navy supported his work in a secret project designed to recharge submarine batteries without the need to surface. His lab was bombed in early 1945. However, after WWII ended he cooperated with British Intelligence which published an initially classified Report on his work, the following year. In 1978, parts of that Report was declassified. Those pages can now be found on the web.

In 2001, the late Sir Arthur Clarke predicted that during 2009: "The first quantum generators (tapping space energy) are developed. Available in portable and household units, from a few kilowatts upwards, they can produce electricity indefinitely."

Our work involves both solid-state and mechanical systems that convert this previously unutilized source of energy. It will deservedly meet with great skepticism. However, independent laboratory evaluation is planned in the near-future. Demonstration devices and toys will help anyone understand that the planet has a surprising energy alternative.

Perhaps one of the most astonishing achievements will be the ability of this technology to turn future cars, trucks and buses into power plants. They will be able to wirelessly transmit up to 150 kW to the grid, when suitably parked, using already proven technology for that purpose.

Vehicles will become investments, that will pay for themselves over a reasonable period of time.

This will end the need to build new coal and uranium fueled power plants.

We hope to participate in the Masdar Project