Any American Zero-Emissions City by 2010?

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In Apr 2008, a city has being built in Abu Dhabi will serve as a large-scale test for renewable energy. In the harsh desert climate of Abu Dhabi, construction started on a city that will house 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses but use extremely little energy, and what it does use will come from renewable sources. The initial building is a new research institute that the founders hope will be the seed for the equivalent of a Silicon Valley of the Middle East, only one centered not on information technology but on renewable energy.

Nevertheless, Paul Dickerson, the chief operating officer for the United States' Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, believes that Abu Dhabi will prove a valuable model. "We will no longer have to guess what the city of the future looks like," he said.

Will we build any zero-emissions city in America by 2010??

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