Comments on: Dubai Plans To Build Region’s Biggest Solar Energy Plant http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/ Promoting a fierce but respectful dialogue among the highly diverse youth of the Middle East Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:40:02 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MA http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-251422 MA Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:31:36 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-251422 Hey: Need to couple Solar with Energy Storage to efficiently and fully utilize Solar Energy during 24 hrs cycle. Hydrogen is one of the most efficient energy carrier and can be readily generated using Photo-electrolysis and converted to electricity using for example Fuel Cells. Dubai and Saudi’s should include this in their plans to fully capture value of solar and to become a truly "Green" energy producer. Hey:

Need to couple Solar with Energy Storage to efficiently and fully utilize Solar Energy during 24 hrs cycle. Hydrogen is one of the most efficient energy carrier and can be readily generated using Photo-electrolysis and converted to electricity using for example Fuel Cells. Dubai and Saudi’s should include this in their plans to fully capture value of solar and to become a truly “Green” energy producer.

]]> By: solar power homes http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-251328 solar power homes Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:02:35 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-251328 Plenty of money, plenty of sun. Dubai seems perfect for solar energy. I see the Saudi's are also flexing their muscles as well and investing heavily in solar power. Plenty of money, plenty of sun. Dubai seems perfect for solar energy. I see the Saudi’s are also flexing their muscles as well and investing heavily in solar power.

]]> By: Esra'a (Bahrain) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235599 Esra'a (Bahrain) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:01:19 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235599 <blockquote>What I would like to see is a greater assessment of the impact the artificial islands that are popping up all over the Persian/Arabian Gulf will have in the long term.</blockquote> Exactly. That's why I think what Dubai doing this, while great, is so ironic. It spent the past decade suffocating and destroying its marine environment, and it continues to do so to do with its dozes of artifical lands and islands, what makes them stop now and consider the environment that they have so actively disregarded? It's hard to believe that they're doing this because they sincerely care. This is PR. Because the world's focus has shifted to environmental activism, Dubai, as usual, seeks attention, and this is the best way to get it. Kudos for their attempts, after all the useless projects they have created, this one is actually useful, but we'll see how seriously they take it. Time will tell whether or not they actually care about the environment.

What I would like to see is a greater assessment of the impact the artificial islands that are popping up all over the Persian/Arabian Gulf will have in the long term.

Exactly. That’s why I think what Dubai doing this, while great, is so ironic. It spent the past decade suffocating and destroying its marine environment, and it continues to do so to do with its dozes of artifical lands and islands, what makes them stop now and consider the environment that they have so actively disregarded?

It’s hard to believe that they’re doing this because they sincerely care. This is PR. Because the world’s focus has shifted to environmental activism, Dubai, as usual, seeks attention, and this is the best way to get it.

Kudos for their attempts, after all the useless projects they have created, this one is actually useful, but we’ll see how seriously they take it. Time will tell whether or not they actually care about the environment.

]]> By: Kawthar (Sudan) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235578 Kawthar (Sudan) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:06:35 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235578 Seeing as it's in Dubai,it strikes me more as another effort to add another item to its list of records rather than a genuine effort to shift to clean energy. But still, it's a good step and it's really delightful to see the leaders paying more attention to its environmental problem. What I would like to see is a greater assessment of the impact the artificial islands that are popping up all over the Persian/Arabian Gulf will have in the long term. Seeing as it’s in Dubai,it strikes me more as another effort to add another item to its list of records rather than a genuine effort to shift to clean energy.

But still, it’s a good step and it’s really delightful to see the leaders paying more attention to its environmental problem. What I would like to see is a greater assessment of the impact the artificial islands that are popping up all over the Persian/Arabian Gulf will have in the long term.

]]> By: elinor(Iran) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235264 elinor(Iran) Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:21:30 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235264 Green Prophet :) SUn has much to share with our sunny region and that is so wise of Dubai to invest in solar energy. The sun rises each moring from the East, showering the lands and people and all other elements of being with an equal love and enthusiams, she doesn't care how we share our energy among ourselves, if we use it to help one another or if we use it to dechage one another, sun showers all of us with the blessings of light and warmth and enrgery. I hope for a Sunny behavior every where, including our Middle East Viva Dubai :) Green Prophet :)
SUn has much to share with our sunny region and that is so wise of Dubai to invest in solar energy. The sun rises each moring from the East, showering the lands and people and all other elements of being with an equal love and enthusiams, she doesn’t care how we share our energy among ourselves, if we use it to help one another or if we use it to dechage one another, sun showers all of us with the blessings of light and warmth and enrgery. I hope for a Sunny behavior every where, including our Middle East
Viva Dubai :)

]]> By: Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA) http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235007 Nissim Dahan (Israel/USA) Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:49:51 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2008/11/04/dubai-fze-solar-energy/#comment-235007 This is a very important project in that it addresses some of the most intractable problems we face in the world. The movement toward Green could become part and parcel of an effort not only to protect the environment, but to create good paying jobs as well. At a time when we are all facing an economic crisis, it becomes even more important to find ways to grow our economies, but in ways that take into account environmental concerns. I also think that a project of this sort could help restore Arab pride by showing that the Arab world can become a leader in launching the next phase of human developmnent. Now if a plant of this sort could be built in the West Bank, that would be even better. Not only would we grow our economies with good paying jobs, and not only would we use green jobs to protect our environment, but we would also be using such jobs to help neutralize the hold of extremist thinking. If people are given a place at the table, a stake in their future, they are less likely to succumb to the lure of extremist thinking. Several Middle East countries have the captial to make projects of this sort happen. They should be encouraged to do so, and to convert oil profits into green profits. And even places like Dubai, which is not swimming in oil, could harness the entrepreneurial spirit, which has always been a part of Arab culture, to venture forth into new economic frontiers, and to lead the way into the future. This is a very important project in that it addresses some of the most intractable problems we face in the world. The movement toward Green could become part and parcel of an effort not only to protect the environment, but to create good paying jobs as well. At a time when we are all facing an economic crisis, it becomes even more important to find ways to grow our economies, but in ways that take into account environmental concerns. I also think that a project of this sort could help restore Arab pride by showing that the Arab world can become a leader in launching the next phase of human developmnent.

Now if a plant of this sort could be built in the West Bank, that would be even better. Not only would we grow our economies with good paying jobs, and not only would we use green jobs to protect our environment, but we would also be using such jobs to help neutralize the hold of extremist thinking. If people are given a place at the table, a stake in their future, they are less likely to succumb to the lure of extremist thinking.

Several Middle East countries have the captial to make projects of this sort happen. They should be encouraged to do so, and to convert oil profits into green profits. And even places like Dubai, which is not swimming in oil, could harness the entrepreneurial spirit, which has always been a part of Arab culture, to venture forth into new economic frontiers, and to lead the way into the future.

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