World’s largest solar park on track

113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks discovered in Texas Aug 25, 2022 [Blueprint]( Life isn’t all sunshine and light… unless you’re in Dubai, where it kind of is. And they’re making the most of all that sunshine by constructing [the world’s largest solar park]( . Or rather, continuing to construct it. It’s a wonder to behold, and is a key part of the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy. The latter aims to provide 100 percent of Dubai’s total power capacity from clean energy sources by 2050. Currently, the park is on track to produce 5 gigawatts (GW) of energy by 2030. Which I think is pretty great. But before you take a look at just how vast that solar park is, take a look at this video, which shows the speed of light at 10 trillion frames per second. Blink and you’ll miss it would be something of an understatement, were it not to have been so cleverly filmed. Good morning. I’m Alice, an Editor at IE. This is The Blueprint. Let’s dive in. 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The Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park project constitutes one of the key pillars of the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 and the Dubai Net Zero Carbon Emissions Strategy to provide 100 percent of Dubai’s total power capacity from clean energy sources by 2050. Located in Seih Al Dahal, Dubai, the park was designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over 6.5 million tons each year by 2030. → It uses a range of photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies, and also includes an innovation center and one of the largest research and development centers in the region. [READ MORE [Arrow]]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Linkedin]( [SCIENCE]SCIENCE [In a world-first, NASA will slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to test planetary defense.]( NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be the [first mission to test planetary defense technology]( in space. It will impact its target asteroid, Dimorphos, on September 26 – and it will be live-streamed. 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