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The lesson of Aluminum - Coggle Diagram
The lesson of Aluminum
The history
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Electrolysis(1886)
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- Created by Charles Martin Haul
- Electricity liberates aluminium from bauxite
- Aluminium was now cheap and available to all
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The lesson
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Technology
Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism it can make the once scarce, now abundant
Masdar
The city of the future
Masdar is one of the most expensive construction projects in the world but it is being constructed based on the future where there will be oil shortages and water shortages
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Sunlight
Masdar receives a lot of sunlight but the earth receives 5,000 times more solar energy falling than what we use a year.
Water
Masdar sits on the Persian gulf which is a big aqueous body but it is salty water, if there was a technology to desalinate the water
Will house 50,000 residents
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Characteristics
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- 8.3% of the weight of the world
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