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Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by damilogogle(m): 4:38pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Fresh details have emerged about Saudi Arabia's wildly ambitious plan to build a $500 billion mega-city in the middle of the desert, officially known as the Neom project. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal on Thursday , plans have been drawn up to furnish the city, which Saudi Arabia wants to be the size of Massachusetts, with a variety of futuristic, and in some cases, downright weird sounding, technologies. The Journal cites reports created by three of the world's biggest consultancy firms - McKinsey & Co, Boston Consulting, and Oliver Wyman - all of whom have been employed to help plan the creation of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's vision for the city. The city will be known as Neom, a portmanteau of the Greek word neos, meaning "new," and mustaqbal, the Arabic word for "future." Among the ideas presented in the consultants' reports, the Journal says, are artificial clouds to create rain in the desert, robotic maids to do housework, and a beach featuring glow-in-the-dark sand. Proposed features mentioned in the consultancy reports are said to include: Flying taxis. In the future, one report says, according to the Journal: Driving is just for fun, no longer for transportation (e.g. driving Ferrari next to the coast with a nice view)." A giant artificial moon that will be illuminated every evening. A state-of-the-art security and surveillance system, which will use drones, security cameras, and facial recognition technology to track every citizen constantly. "Cloud seeding" technology to make artificial clouds and produce higher rainfall that naturally possible in the Saudi desert. School classes taught by holographic teachers. Neom will have the "leading education system on the planet," the consultants' reports say. A Jurassic Park-like island filled with robotic dinosaurs to entertain residents and visitors. A dining scene including the "highest rate of Michelin-starred restaurants per inhabitant" of any city in the world. Neom is the centerpiece in bin Salman's Vision 2030 plan to modernize and diversify the Saudi economy, lessening the kingdom's reliance on fossil fuels. Saudi Arabia is the world's second biggest producer of oil, narrowly behind the US in terms of production capacity. As a result, its economic prosperity is linked closely with global oil prices, which are volatile. 2 Likes
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Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by baconline(m): 4:50pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Chai!!! |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by MadamExcellency: 4:55pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
That is the GDP of entire Nigeria. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Harlem2(m): 5:00pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Waiting for the vanity gang 2 Likes
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Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Born2Breed(f): 5:01pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
These were Gaddafi's idea. 4 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Nobody: 5:04pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by ChocolateHigh: 5:26pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
We are counting on our amiable president mama mmadu bụ garrị to do it for us! 7 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by hisexcellency34: 5:39pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
That is what Atiku plans to do with Nigeria too but APC won't allow him |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by tartar9(m): 5:53pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
I weep for saudi arabia.There are a myriad of ways of developing without investing in sin. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by LadySarah: 6:24pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
The same oilooo. 1 Like |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Numismatic(m): 6:45pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Such innovation.. Na RUGA we know.. 3 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Nobody: 6:45pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
That's a place I will love to own a house. Hurry up boys, 2030 is too far 2 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by saintjimos(m): 6:47pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
excellent concept |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Newnas(m): 6:51pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
tartar9: I think you have a point. |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Classicdexy(m): 6:55pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Hmm,,, God abeg waya me lots and lots money too ooo 1 Like |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by CosmicPhoenix: 7:26pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
if you ask me,i will say they cannot pull it off
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Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by stonemasonn: 7:27pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
tartar9:indeed, they can invest in cattle colony. 4 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by kayusely70(m): 7:37pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
What can one say about nigeria oil wealth, im sure our leaders would be buying houses there if our oil has not dried up. |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Babalegba(m): 7:42pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
More fantasy than reality.Artificial rain my foot. |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by muykem: 7:46pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
hisexcellency34:planning to do for IPOB point of correction. 2 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by NaijaRoyalty(m): 7:47pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
This project won't fly |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by jesmond3945: 7:50pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
It would be the west and china that would build the city for them. There own is to go to a robotic mosque to pray. |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by bettercreature(m): 8:26pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Babalegba:Probably 50 years plan,just like Dubai it’s about 29years old still not yet 10% of where they want it to be .I don’t really think the plan can work in country where there are hardliners like Saudi Arabia,it can only work in Qatar and UAE They are going to reject it 3 Likes |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by jom28gy(m): 8:51pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
he forgot one thing; cattle colony 1 Like |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Nobody: 10:01pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
Oil money to be well spent |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by iluvdonjazzy: 10:43pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
these are countries where things work. |
Re: Saudi's Crown Prince To Build A $500 Billion Desert City With Artificial Rain by Aidejay(m): 11:38pm On Jul 27, 2019 |
tartar9:elaborate Where is sin here? |
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