“We want the temperature to be above 100 degrees Celsius,” Jay Witherspoon, operations director and technology leader, said in a phone interview from Abu Dhabi. “The thermal energy can offset the electrical energy needed to cool the city.”
Monday, April 5, 2010
U.A.E. Masdar to Drill for Hot Water in Search of Green Energy
April 4 (Bloomberg) -- Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, plans to drill 5,000-meter-deep wells in search for water hot enough to propel power generators for a zero-carbon city, according to an official at CH2M Hill, consultant to Masdar.
Morocco to Solar-Power Nearly Half its Kingdom
And why not. The North African desert kingdom gets over 3,000 yearly hours of solid reliable sun power – every year. Nine centuries of sun have beaten down on the Kingdom of Morocco since this gate was built. Morocco will invest $9 billion upfront to build 2 Gigawatts of solar power, distributed between 5 solar power plants, by 2020. The 2 GW (2,000 Megawatts) is enough to supply 40% of the nation's electricity to 32 million souls, who apparently have fairly modest energy needs.
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