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

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The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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This Fusion Reactor Is Held Together With Tape

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We just hope we can do it in time to be a major part of the solution to the climate crisis.” Over two years, the team managed to buy up most of the world’s supply of 4-millimeter-wide HTS tape—the largest amount of HTS tape ever procured—sourcing it as far afield as Japan and Russia. I’m watching it happening all around me.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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More Climate crusader "Were very reasonable people," says White House energy czar Carol Browner. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia. In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. And they exist.

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