Belgium plans first renewable energy Antarctic base

Belgium will build the first polar station powered solely by renewable sources of energy at a site in the Antarctic that will study climate change.

The base will be constructed from November 2007 to March 2008 at a cost of 6.4 million euros ($8.2 million), project organizer The International Polar Foundation (IPF) said when he unveiled the plan on Wednesday.

“It’s the first ever station built which will use only renewable energy — solar and wind,” IPF President Alain Hubert told Reuters in a telephone interview.
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