First impressions from Masdar's sci-fi solar city

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Tom Young visits the site of Abu Dhabi's $22bn "zero carbon" Masdar City, and finds the desert construction site is just a few years away from becoming one of the world's premier clean tech hubs

Masdar’s $22bn (£15bn) “zero carbon” city isn't much to look at yet. It’s currently a fenced off 6km by 6km area of scrubland outside the city of Abu Dhabi, with a large 10MW solar PV farm in one corner....

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