Archive for February, 2010

The Troubled Story of the Burj Khalifa

Everyone is still talking about the financial crisis, especially about how Dubai defaulted on something like $80 billion in debt in November 2009 and my current oil-rich home bailed them out…again, probably because they have already committed so much funding to Dubai. In December 2009 Dubai received an additional $10 billion loan from the emirate [...]

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World Future Energy Summit 2010 in Abu Dhabi

From January 18 to 21 Abu Dhabi hosted the second (or maybe third) annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES).  Masdar was one of the main sponsors of the event, and it was quite a show.  Something like 20,000 people came through over 40,000 m^2 of space (nearly 10 acres) from 130 countries (including over 70 [...]

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