Make it green any you’d have The Emerald City of Oz.
Oh, yeah, that looks like a pleasant homey place to live in. Sign me up. /s
I’ll bet this is what the housing for the people who designed the Death Star looks like.
But will it have a dialing device? (Stargate)
It’s a terrorist’s eat dream. One small nuke and kill 1 million people.
Sadly, this sort of lifestyle is the best case scenario for the future, if “conservatives” don’t start to grasp pretty soon that population growth is not a good thing. Yes, we can squash more people onto the planet, but you can forget about kids growing up in freestanding single-family homes with some land around them that’s actually controlled by the free citizens who live there. Instead, highly-efficient, densely-packed living arrangements, which are invariably highly socialistic in political organization and regulation, will increasingly become the norm.
More of that ‘transfer of wealth’. Except, where are they buying the materials and expertise to build the thing? And where will they get all the things these 1 million residents will need to live their life of luxury? Coould it be that the wealth is going to continue to circulate and make its way right back home? Don’t get me wrong, I would love to be energy independent for other reasons, but this ‘transfer of wealth’ argument makes me grind my teeth. This is a monument to that fallacy.
Really exciting. If we still had our oil money, we’d be building innovative buildings too.
Interesting they are using alternative energy when they have so much oil.
I watched a crew putting in a new pier, lots of guys, lots of heavy equipment and noise, no fumes. I went over and asked why not. They were running their equipment on biodiesel, which, the guy told me, would make OK fish food if they had a spill. Big construction guy, he seemed really happy about that.
Drill America, use biodiesel to run the equipment. Is that a compromise or what?
Our oil money is building monstrous monuments on foreign sand.
Here's a question: Will the ziggurats grow their own food?
It’s going to be manufactured on the moon?
LAZARUS LONG
Yeah, yeah, but here’s the real question: will they implement the heretofore unknown technology in Arabia—indoor plumbing?
Don’t be surprised if this thing is actually built...
Dubai is home to the (soon to be completed) world’s tallest building...
Dubai is also home to what might be considered engineering marvels; the man made palm tree islands, and the man made world islands...
There is a third set of man made islands under construction; the size and shape of which escapes me...
I think they are building the world’s largest indoor mall...
A rail system is under construction...
A huge airport is under construction, possibly the world’s largest...
Can’t forget about the indoor ski run and winter playland...
Oil revenues have been very good to the Emir and good for the emirates...
Many currencies are strong against the dirham, especially the euro...
It’s the new Riviera for the rich and famous (and the not so rich and famous)...
Labor (indentured servitude/slavery) provides one of key engines for the explosive growth...
National pride/Muslim pride is another major engine...
And again, the oil revenue in that region of the world is staggering, providing investors at every opportunity...
Yes, this complex will be built, and in fact, it will be built sooner rather than later...
Why is Dubai, home of 10% of the world’s oil supply, building an alternative energy housing complex?
But what the hey, better they use the money to build things than to fund terrorism. For as long as the ME keeps getting our oil money (which I hope won’t be real long but we have incomepetent people in Congress...), I say build all the giant towers you want. That means less money that will be going to madrassas in Pakistan or someplace like that.
Of course, this came to mind, for some inexplicable reason (the look, not any deeper meaning):
As if there wasn’t already a glut of unsold real eastate in Dubai....
The Tiger Woods Dubai project consists of a golfcourse/clubhouse, hotel, and luxury homes overlooking on the fairways. Press release this week that the homes part of the project has been “delayed” due to a lack of available building materials. But whats really going on is the projections of a massive over supply of high-end homes and condos in Dubai in 2009 are starting to spook developers and projects are starting to get scaled back.
Thousands of homes are supposed to be built on the palm islands as well.
http://www.tigerwoodsdubai.com/
To also put a a project like this in perspective, about 7 other pro golfers have similar golf courses planned or already being built in Dubai.
I was in Dubai this previous March. The place is hotter than hell the entire year, the only color is various shades of sand, oh yeah, it's dusty.
It's basically the Las Vegas of the ME. All the workers came from another country. I think the only UAE citizens I saw worked at the airport.
Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
