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> will be built from scratch on a desert [...] with lush landscapes Will be interesting to see how sustainable that is.

• HeckFeck 5y ago
  Maybe they're working on terraforming technology.
  • tpmx 5y ago
    They're not planning anything beyond fancy renders.
• yourapostasy 5y ago
  Same concerns with THE LINE [1] in Saudi Arabia. I'm guessing that the energy harvesting from the geography and leveraging the locale's low humidity for evaporative cooling, along with the generally ultra-low cost of acquiring the dirt, are pretty attractive for moonshot projects like these. I've yet to see any of these types of projects start with fundamentals like better-than-PassivHaus insulation standards, or NetZero standards, or make form follow function by performing and designing around an energy flow analysis, or learn from the lessons that Strong Towns extracted from the population density factors, and so on, so these projects are likely run into many of the same foundational challenges that many nations and cities struggle with today. I think coming up with a framework that allows organic evolution towards integrating these many different factors continuously over the long-term is all we can really hope to accomplish for practical success; we likely simply don't have the sufficient analytical tools to design-up-front except in the most basic, infrastructural ways. [1] https://www.neom.com/en-us/whatistheline https://www.neom.com/en-us/whatistheline