Saadiyat Island

Island of happiness is translated as Saadiyat Island which locates in the north east of Abu Dhabi city. It is going to be home for people, businesses, visitors, culture and nature. For many spectacular reasons, may partner, Bader and I did researches about TDIC project in this paradise island. Moreover, you can see our PowerPoint about its features at link:
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/67661/Saadiyat-Island-ppt.html

The project I liked the most was Saadiyat Island. It covers social, economical and entertainment life. There is leisure and tourism facilitates and civic and cultural amenities. There will be five major cultural institutaions. It will be hold about 150,000 residents so there are enough star hotels on the Saddiyat beach.

The least interesting project was Grand Corniche Hotel. It is going to be build with totally of glass so it will be hard to clean and to repair. Moreover, it isn’t going to have any activities which will interest visitors to come just good looking.

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Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is not a parrot which is accepting of ideas and facts without going deep on them. Critical thinking is evaluation and analysis by mental processes in order to form purposeful and reflective judgment. It helps to solve problems and to put decisions before believe it. There should be based on concepts and principles that are not hard or fast. Critical thinking needs more important information so that can change facts to be truths. It wants to have willing and ability to think so after that there will be critical skills that will form good judgments. It combines with learning. If you think poorly, you will learn poorly because critical thinking bases on making our brain busy for constructing intellectual process.

A Cool City: Masdar

Masdar is a city with area of 6 km2 which is going to be constructed in Abu Dhabi. It will burn no gas or oil so it is Carbon neutral. In this essay, I ill write about aims of the Masdar Project.

One of the biggest is zero carbon emissions. Buildings’ sides and windows won’t put together facing the direct sunlight for the purpose of decreasing amount of absorbing solar power. There will be solar panels and solar collectors placing on buildings’ roofs and elsewhere to generate electricity.

Another goal is banning gas or oil cars. In the city, passengers would use a personal rapid transit (PRT) system which is designed like a simple vehicle running by solar power and batteries. These powered cars would run on changed routes so people can go anywhere.

Last aim is recycling 80% or water. The plan is to reuse water many times. For instance, one idea is irrigation recovery which is water can be used more than once for watering crops.

Geothermal Energy

It is a renewable energy source which comes from heat within the earth. People use this energy to produce electricity for building and other purposes. In this essay, I will write about advantages of this power.

One of the biggest is producing electricity. It generates elect city for 24 hours. It uses earth’s constant temperatures so it is available even if the weather changed every day. Another answer is no need for fuel. This type of renewable energy doesn’t need fossil fuel and its stations produce free energy. Another advantage is environmental friendly. The usage of geothermal power can be reduced the air pollution. Moreover, it can used to assist certain manufacturing processes and dry fruits and vegetable. In addition, it increases the number of tourist and improves the economy by producing zinc and other minerals.

In UAE, we can not sue hydropower energy because it needs water falls and rivers. Hydrogen energy is also not beneficial because it is expensive and difficult to store.

To conclude, geothermal power is renewable, available and free heat, so it can be good source to Arabic countries.


LOOK TO MY PRESENTATIONS

Geothermal Energy Powerpoint Presentation http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/65792/Geothermal-ppt.html

Hydro Power Powerpoint Presentation
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/65795/Hydro-power-ppt.html

hydrogen Power Powerpoint Presentation
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/65796/hydrogen-ppt.html

Solar Energy Powerpoint Presentation
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/65797/Solar-Energy-ppt.html

Nuclear vs Renewable Sources Powerpoint Presentation
http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/65799/Nuclear-vs-Renewable-Sources-ppt.html

Cool City Project Comments (in UAE)

Global warming has influence in environment life through air, soil and water. As the result, people life is getting to be difficult. In this article, you will find three good local solutions that help to save money and improve public health by reducing energy waste and pollution. Moreover, there are also three bad adaptations that don’t work to reduce global warming.

There are a number of good adaptations. First of all is solar and wind installations. UAE is a desert land which has sunlight through seasons. If it depends on solar power, it will limit using fossil fuel. Wind is available on that land so it can be used like another alternative energy which is wind energy. Second is energy efficiency retrofits to existing buildings. UAE has small and area so municipality and local government can work together to make fast changes in buildings. There are not that many buildings and modernizing lights and heating and cooling could be very good improving. Anther adaptation is energy efficient street lighting. There are numerous amount of lights in the streets which burn significant amount of energy. Street lights can be replaced with super efficient lights emitting diode (LED) bulbs; cities will save costs of energy.

There are also bad adaptations. One of the most important is combined heat and power. A power plant need more secure and any small mistake, it will cause casualties and negative effects. A further point is clean buses. Abu Dhabi, Dhabi and Sharjah are suffering from traffic jams and the best solution is to get red of buses with trains. Last adaptation is public funds. In UAE, most of citizens have lack of knowledge and poor. Like economical changes, it could make social problems.

In summary, there are maybe good adaptations for reducing emissions but have serious effects people live. In my opinion, we should work out the problem not by making another problem.

My Carbon Footprint

Carbon footprint is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by direct people activities or indirect. It is expressed in tons of carbon dioxide (co2) equivalently. My carbon footprint is 8.58 tonnes per annum. This essay will examine my carbon footprint problems and discuss accompanying my solutions.

Many problems could result from carbon footprint. One of the biggest is driving by my car. I use my one a lot to cut long distance which is more than 45 km per one day and that causes atmospheric pollution. Energy consumption depends on fuel consumption and driving distance. Another predicament is operation of my computer. My laptop consumes oil, gas or coal to generate electricity and by that operation, I also generate co2 because I use natural oil to run my compute and a house. A final difficulty is using papers. Papers are produced from wood which is one source of co2. Different types of papers have different amount of gas emissions.

There are several things I can do to deal with my carbon footprint. One answer is limiting use of my car. I could contribute to reduce emissions by using my bike to travel short distance and that will less burning process of fuel. I can also use small and Toyota cars like Corolla which has less consuming of fuel. A second solution is to start recycling system. It is better to separate my trash baskets like one basket for papers and second for plastic bottles.

To conclude, Small changes in our life style could help to reduce emission and global warming because it is mostly direct human activities. The carbon footprint can be more efficient and effective, if we cooperate to find and apply possible solutions.

Those pictures are my contributing to reduce Carbon Emissions.

Using Bike, bottles recycling, Paper Recycling Water