Going Green

Monday, January 21, 2008

Abu Dhabi's Decisions for the Future

Using oil money to develop alternative energy is smart. Eventually the oil will run out. Plot your course while there's adequate capital to do something about it.

Abu Dhabi plots hydrogen future

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

The government of Abu Dhabi has announced a $15bn (£7.5bn) initiative to develop clean energy technologies.

The Gulf state describes the five-year initiative as "the most ambitious sustainability project ever launched by a government".

Components will include the world's largest hydrogen power plant.

The government has...(complete article here).

2 comments:

bigwhitehat said...

I'm all for finding cheap energy. But, I don't get the math behind oil ever running out.

Chris McClure aka Panhandle Poet said...

BWH: Probably not in our lifetime, but it is a limited supply in a world of growing demand.