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The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete

Cars That Think

That’s about 4 tonnes for every person on the planet and twice as much as all other building materials combined. Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires. Creating a kilogram of steel , for instance, releases about 2.4 times as much CO 2 as a kilogram of cement does.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. Hey, it’s not personal. Moratorium and phase-out of coal plants that do not capture and store CO2. That just ain’t right. It’s strictly business.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And personally I like better simple solutions. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment. Neutral jakem @ Apr 19th 2009 5:21PM Thats only a better solution for people who have a garage at home. Saving lives through nuclear power. :p

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Lotus and Harmon partner up to add sound to hybrids

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. — Kaare Nilsen 2.

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