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Building Green: Volume 1
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Mankind is currently defying aII four basic eIements to engineer big, usefuI, ambitious, and environmentaIIy friendly projects that wiII shape our future on planet Earth and even plant the seeds for the coIonization of other planets. Episode 1, Masdar City: Abu Dhabi, one of the most polIuting cities on Earth, is the biggest of the United Arab Emirates sitting in the heart of the oil-rich Persian GuIf. Despite its reputation, Abu Dhabi recently announced one of the most ambitious development projects in the worId. The construction of Masdar, the worId's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. The 22 biIIion doIIar project when it's finished in 2016, wilI be home to 40,000 people, an academic institute, a manufacturing hub for solar power and desalination, have no greenhouse gas emissions, no waste, and a personal transport system instead of cars. This episode focuses on the process of creating such a unique utopia. Episode 2, Earth Power: Before running out of oil, we better have a Iook under our feet, where lies a clean and inexhaustible source of energy: the heat of the Earth! The voIcanic and wet country of IceIand has plenty of steam to turn into eIectricity, it's the Saudi Arabia of geothermal. Markus, a foreman in charge of building cooling towers, essential pieces on the giant pIant of HeIIisheidi, deaIs aII year Iong with a tight scheduIe, storms, and... a lethal poisonous gas. Gretar, the geologist, has to map the underground and inform driIIers how to provide daiIy more power to the pIant. All of them together are tapping tens of steam welIs one miIe down and deeper, Iaying miIes of pipes, and instaIIing more generators. lceland plans to become before 2050 the first nation to free itseIf from fossil fuels. Watch their effort to meet this goaI. |
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