Its carbon-fiber body will hit 60 miles per hour in fewer than three seconds.

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Buckyballs, as they became known colloquially, are football-shaped molecules made of 60 carbon atoms linked by single and double bonds.

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On Tuesday the government will launch its Climate Change Bill, which puts the government's long-term goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050 into statute.

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Most of the demand growth will come from natural gas-fired power plants, which emit 60% less carbon than coal burners.

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So, a hydrogen fuel-cell car even running ... on hydrogen derived from natural gas cuts that carbon emission by 60%.

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Also, the cleaner burning fuel reduces combustion byproducts over petroleum and diesel, cutting carbon monoxide emissions by an estimated 90%-97%, and nitrogen dioxide emissions by 35%-60%.

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At current rates, forest clearance is set to release more than 34 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2050 -- the equivalent of the UK's total emissions for the past 60 years.

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