Dubai is planning to set up the region’s largest solar energy manufacturing plant. They are expected to start producing by the last quarter in 2010, and will manufacture photovoltaic panels that can generate 130 megawatts of power annually.

The building plans call for a 1 million square foot plant, with solar panels to be produced as big as 5.7sqm. Similar plants will be built in China, Mexico and Bulgaria. The announcement was made during this week’s Green Dubai World Forum 2008.
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The World is a man-made archipelago of 300 islands constructed in the shape of a world map and located 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The World is built primarily using sand dredged from the sea. It was developed by Nakheel Properties and was originally conceived by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
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Dubai Aquarium & Discovery Center in The Dubai Mall, which plans to opens on November 4, 2008, has clinched the Guinness World Record for the ‘World’s Largest Acrylic Panel’.

The aquarium will showcase one of the most diverse collections of 33,000 plus marine life worldwide, according to mall officials. With one of the largest tanks in the world at 51 meters by 20 meters by 11 metres, the aquarium will feature the world’s largest viewing panel, which will be 32.8 meters wide, 8.3 metres high, 750 mm thick and weighing 245,614 kg.  The viewing panel at Dubai Aquarium surpasses the current Guinness World Record holder, Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, at 22.5 metres wide x 8.2 meters high and 600 mm thick.
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