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Opinion: 4 Things You Should Think About Before Buying a Sports Car

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If you spend most of the week huddled in a conference room or behind a computer, spend the rest of the day indoors, perhaps an expensive sports car is not your ideal possession. The last thing you need is an expensive car wasting away in the garage. Remember, you are buying a car, not a deal. Don’t be wowed by the deal.

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Tesla drivers have smoke blown in their faces | Opinion

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I wouldn’t say he sounds smug and self-satisfied, because I hate understatement too much, but I would say he seems unlikely to buy an electric car any time ever. That was rather dramatic climate change, but presumably that had nothing to do with mankind’s carbon dioxide emissions.”

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade? It’s about time we changed course. 181-199.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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He added that the energy from wind, solar, and hydroelectric plants should be stored in batteries so the electricity generated from them during off-peak hours isn’t wasted but integrated into energy grids. And unlike traditional nuclear facilities, SMRs don’t need to be located near large bodies of water to handle the waste heat discharge.

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Bill Ford outlines “Blueprint for Mobility”, calls for automotive and telecommunications industries to collaborate to address coming personal mobility crisis

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During his keynote address at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford outlined a plan for connected cars to help avoid a potential future of what he called “ global gridlock—a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources. ”. —Bill Ford.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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Cities account for 2% of the world’s area and yet they account for 75% of the resources and 75% of the waste ,” said Cervero. He believes “ monolithic vehicle design ”—where people buy one car to fit all of their needs—is outdated. More Americans live in cities than outside of cities. Masdar: “tabula rasa” in Abu Dhabi.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Perspective by Brian J. INTRODUCTION.

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