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OKIsItJustMe

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Mon Oct-01-07 09:55 PM
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Solar solutions for the UAE (!)

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/10/01/10157303.html

Solar solutions for the UAE

By Emmanuelle Landais, Staff Reporter
Published: October 01, 2007, 00:41

The UAE is finally making the most of its sun-drenched habitat. Perhaps being slow off the mark, the country is speeding ahead to develop avant-garde technology to feed a growing solar industry which, in just over a decade, will attract $20 billion (Dh73.4 billion) in investments and will avoid the emission of 362 million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

The following report highlights some of the latest solar power devices making their debut in the UAE.

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gateley

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Mon Oct-01-07 10:16 PM
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1. If any locale could utilize solar power, and if anybody could pay for it, it's the UAE. nt

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diane in sf

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Tue Oct-02-07 04:20 AM
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2. Their oil isn't going to last forever. Bill Clinton actually recommended they

take the path to creating solar power.

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