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What technologies are needed to reduce carbon dioxide?

DEC 14, 2009
Physics Today
NPR : With or without a new treaty this month, the effort to curb climate change has accelerated since the 1997 Kyoto conference. Although the US never ratified the Kyoto Protocol, numerous efforts are under way in the US to limit warming by attacking the main culprit: burning fossil fuels. NPR takes a look at some of the technologies, as well as social mechanisms, aimed at changing how we consume energy—and slow climate change.
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