Silica Element “S” Park
Saudi Arabia is a great storehouse of the world natural resources: in its land, its green energy potential and its young dynamic population. In the element under review here “Saudi super green potential” resides in its abundant high quality silica resources. So common, so historically important it keeps the value added within the Kingdom to turn glass into and integrated building, semiconductor chain and green energy production platform.
A key element in radiant energy production but in new and surprising applications: energy production as a function of building materials. The high-quality silica (sand) now viewed as a commodity is the beginning of a construction era where buildings “windows” imperceptibly generate electricity. Saudi Arabia has the great potential but also the enlightened leadership to see the “leapfrog” implications of this technology application.
Skytower
Zero Carbon Park
Radiant energy captured by a window now results in heat. Electric power generated by embedded receptors convert radiant energy to electricity now barely perceptible doesn’t block the view. By making a building’s “skin” produce energy for that building, the building is enabled, the grid is enabled, pollution is minimized and energy cost radically reduced.
This revolution in the application of energy generating or enhancing building materials cannot but be a huge advantage to the Saudi construction industry and the quality of the silica in the Kingdom is perhaps the best in the world for this purpose. Making glass is a time-honored tradition in many cultures. The hope of the Zero Carbon Park is this application and others can bring with it a great new export market to allow for electricity production to move from far away to the building where you work.
A building’s skin becomes a giant solar panel. This is the very definition in the new green world where distributed energy production and consumption is a way of life!
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