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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. Ola guys have done experiments like storing the battery at 120 degree Celsius and testing it at temperatures of up to 70 degree Celsius. The cells are stored in a special low-temperature area. Latin America, Africa, Australia and US have all got proven Lithium reserves.

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