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Steel Giant POSCO to Fund Renewable Energy Micro-Grid System in Abu Dhabi
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in partnership with The Masdar Institute (MI) and the Research Institute for Industrial Science and Technology (RIST) from South Korea plans to develop 100 %...
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Masdar — Manufactured Silicon Valley Of Cleantech?
I recently had the chance to visit Masdar City as part of a VIP Media trip to Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. Naturally, if someone pays for me to visit their home, I’m cautious of propaganda,...
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Interview With Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, Director Of Sustainability At Masdar
As global energy leaders arrive in New York City to attend this week’s Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit, I had the lucky opportunity to catch up with Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, director of sustainability...
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Boeing Biofuel Breakthrough — This Is A BIG Deal (Interview With Boeing’s...
On the sidelines of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week*, European energy journalist Karel Beckman, university biologist Joanne Manaster, and I got to have a conversation with a member of Boeing leadership...
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Biofuel Flights Within Five Years, Says Head Of Etihad Airways
The United-Arab-Emirates-based aviation heavyweight Etihad Airways will soon be offering regular 100%-biofuel-powered commercial flights throughout the region, according to recent comments made by...
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Complicated Relationship Between Oil Companies, Airlines, & Biofuels — But...
If you read my “Boeing Biofuel Breakthrough” article carefully, you must have noticed the bit about tar sands oil and shale oil not burning as well in airplanes. Darrin Morgan, director of sustainable...
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Masdar Institute Of Technology Opening New Sustainable Energy Research Center
Masdar Institute of Technology — the Emirate of Abu Dhabi’s alternative energy and sustainability research-oriented university — recently unveiled plans for the creation of a center for researching...
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Algae Research At Masdar Institute (CT Exclusive Video)
It’s taken me awhile to get back to a bunch of videos I filmed during the second annual Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week*, but this post is going to kick off a second wave of footage from that awesome...
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Solar Resource Mapping For The Middle East (CT Exclusive Video)
Continuing my return to Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week*, here’s another video I’ve been stingily holding on to. Basically, folks from Masdar Institute, IRENA, and other organizations are working on some...
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Abu Dhabi Ascent
I’m headed to Abu Dhabi yet again right now*, this time for Abu Dhabi Ascent, a major UN event that is supposed to feature former US Vice President and elected-by-popular-vote (but not officially...
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Revolutionizing The Water Desalination Industry?
First of all, let me say that water desalination is not my expertise. But based on my limited knowledge of the industry and what I learned this week at Abu Dhabi Ascent, the news below is quite big. As...
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Breakthrough Halophyte Biofuel & The Failure Of Tar Sands Oil (Exclusive Videos)
With great appreciation to the Masdar PR crew and to Dr Alejandro Ríos Galván, Director of the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), I was recently granted the opportunity to speak...
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The Energy Trap, & How The World & The UAE Can Avoid It
Sustainnovate. Since the middle of 18th century, mankind has been using fossil fuel energy as a bank account, from which we collectively withdraw every year using a peculiar sort of ATM. It is peculiar...
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Solar PV Research At Masdar Institute (Exclusive Video)
When I was at Abu Dhabi Ascent earlier this year, I got to speak with Dr. Steve Griffiths, Executive Director of Institute Initiatives at Masdar Institute, about a wide variety of solar power topics....
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Masdar CEO: Adoption Of Renewable Energy Is Key To Meeting Growing Energy...
The CEO of Masdar, Dr Ahmad Belhoul, recently gave the keynote speech at the opening of the 8th World Future Energy Summit — part of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week — during which he made the notable...
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Boeing, Etihad Airways, Masdar Institute Halophyte Biofuel Update (Exclusive...
One of the big Masdar sessions at the World Future Energy Summit, part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, was a session focused on the halophyte biofuel research CleanTechnica featured in two exclusives...
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GE Joins Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium
GE has become the latest in a number of high-profile companies to join the Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), according to recent news from the World Future Energy Summit and Abu Dhabi...
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Interviewing Masdar’s Director of Solar Research (Video)
Unfortunately, many people still think that Masdar* = Masdar City. In fact, Masdar has 4 big arms, just one of which is Masdar City. One of the others is Masdar Institute. The cleantech and...
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Wind & Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels In UAE
A new report describes how the UAE renewable energy sector could skyrocket, taking the country off the table as a major customer for US natural gas Wind & Solar Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels In UAE was...
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Masdar Desalination Pilots Move Into Optimization Phase
In early 2014, Zach covered an exciting desalination project that Masdar kicked off which specifically focused on improving the energy efficiency of the desalination process while also supporting it...
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