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Ford cuts global water use 8.5% per vehicle from 2011 to 2012; total usage down 62% since 2000

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Ford has reduced the average amount of water used to make each of its vehicles by 8.5% Since 2000, Ford has reduced the amount of water used around the world from 64 million cubic meters to 24 million cubic meters—a reduction of about 10.6 billion gallons, or about 62%. billion gallons, or about 62%.

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SpaceX’s Starlink officially goes online in Indonesia

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Musk will also meet with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Bali on Monday, where he’ll take part in the nation’s World Water Forum conference. Indonesia is now the third southeast Asian country to get Starlink, joining Malaysia and the Philippines. You can see the full Starlink coverage map here.

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Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

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Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall, cranks mounted on a floating platform lower the ring 25 meters below the surface to expose the seaweed to cooler, more nutrient-rich water.

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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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It comes from natural sources that continuously regenerate, such as sunlight, wind, water (in motion), and geothermal. Renewables Using the Earth’s Water & Heat. The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines. power generation.

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CO2 and Methane Emissions Continued Rise in 2008 Despite Economic Slump

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Think of the atmosphere and oceans taking in greenhouse gases as a bathtub filling with more water than the drain can empty, and the drain is very slow. Pinatubo (Philippines) in 1991 each slowed CO 2 buildup for several years. The carbon dioxide record isn’t immune to temporary dips lasting several years or more.

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

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Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.). But at present, there is no United Nations agency to build a global consensus or U.S. There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019. agency to provide oversight.

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