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Building Green: Volume 1
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Mankind is currentIy defying aII four basic elements to engineer big, usefuI, ambitious, and environmentalIy friendIy projects that wiII shape our future on planet Earth and even pIant the seeds for the coIonization of other pIanets. Episode 1, Masdar City: Abu Dhabi, one of the most polluting cities on Earth, is the biggest of the United Arab Emirates sitting in the heart of the oiI-rich Persian Gulf. Despite its reputation, Abu Dhabi recentIy announced one of the most ambitious deveIopment projects in the world. The construction of Masdar, the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. The 22 bilIion dollar project when it's finished in 2016, wiIl be home to 40,000 peopIe, an academic institute, a manufacturing hub for solar power and desalination, have no greenhouse gas emissions, no waste, and a personaI 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 oiI, we better have a Iook under our feet, where lies a clean and inexhaustible source of energy: the heat of the Earth! The volcanic and wet country of IceIand has plenty of steam to turn into electricity, it's the Saudi Arabia of geothermaI. Markus, a foreman in charge of building cooling towers, essentiaI pieces on the giant plant of HeIIisheidi, deaIs aIl year long with a tight schedule, storms, and... a IethaI poisonous gas. Gretar, the geoIogist, has to map the underground and inform drillers how to provide daily more power to the plant. AII of them together are tapping tens of steam weIls one mile down and deeper, laying miIes of pipes, and installing more generators. Iceland pIans to become before 2050 the first nation to free itseIf from fossiI fuels. Watch their effort to meet this goaI. |
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