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While most eco-friendly buildings try to cut down or supplement their power consumption, there have yet to be any buildings that go so far as to generate more power than they consume. Not so with the Masdar Headquarters in Abu Dhabi, the world's first positive energy building. It will even generate power for its own assembly, as the first thing to go up will be a solar roof pier that'll gather juice as the rest of the structure goes up.
Costing $300 million to construct and sporting 1.3 million square feet of space, the building will be the centerpiece of the eco-friendly Masdar City, which is a $22 billion development outside of Abu Dhabi. The techniques it uses are pretty radical, but hopefully we'll see more positive energy buildings sprouting up soon enough.
Project Page, via Inhabitat
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By Nimitz at 2:08 AM ON 03/07/08
JUST great! A positive-energy building in the ONE place where they have all the, ahem, "alternative" energy they need.
. . .Oh, and paid for by us schmucks in the U.S., of course.
By rodrom at 8:22 AM ON 03/09/08
As long the Us is paying... Im fine.
But anyway, Its a nice consept. and in our upcomming travels to the planets its a good thing to have tested down on earth. A compleet selfsufficient Biosphere.
btw. Only reason such Building cost this ammount of money to build is because of the development costs. Everyone wants to make a pile of profit on everything. and ofcoarce patents.
By hassan at 12:45 PM ON 06/04/08
wow what a waste of money call me when that shit clapse