Carbon emissions

                    In the Middle East and North Africa  carbon emissions  have doubled in the past 30 years. Most of emissions problems come from rich countries which produce oil and gas .Emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity and transportation and this affects the climate .Aabian Gulf has the highest ecological footprint in the world. While other like Yemen and North Africa emit less.

 One of the mean reasons of the problem is inefficiency in energy usage therefore the UAE, one of the countries with a high rate of emission, is trying to create solutions to the problem. Improving efficiency standards is a move in the right direction to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Abu Dhabi government is interest to reduce the emission so, they develops the strategies and policy to control level of emission.

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solar-power plant

Abu Dhabi started to work on new solar –power plant project by MASDER and Sener of Spain called Gemsolar .This is a new idea where the sun transfers the heat energy to molten salt .The energy of sun is reflected in huge mirrors and the molten salt is contained in a storage tank then is heated and is used to power a steam turbine. This is turn produces electricity. Before they did not use molten salt and so this is a revolutionary technology. The “heliostats” is the name of system which replaced the older version and the temperatures reflected are very high from the energy of the mirrors around the central tower .The large capacity of energy is enough to supply thousands of homes. The team built a separate control system when follows the sun. Each heliostat has a lot of complicated machinery around it and support.

Tariq Nasser 

Khalid Al massabi

Abdulrahman Rashid