To make the Mach3, Gillette has found a way to bond diamond-hard carbon to slivers of steel.
The Zonda looks like what it is, a domesticated Le Mans prototype, a hard-eyed courtesan in a carbon-fiber corset laced with an assassin's piano wire.
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Perhaps we ignore carbon dioxide because it's hard for us to think long-term and connect the dots.
Germany's SGL Carbon (6, SGG) has fallen 33% since May and has yet to recover as it supplies primarily the hard-hit steel and semiconductor industries with carbon and graphite products, which include electrodes, laboratory components and furnace linings.
Rather than attack the Carbon Club, the authors get down to hard issues.
He and Independent Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman had worked hard to push a global climate crisis-premised 2010 carbon cap-and-trade bill, only to see its prospects for passage swept away in a Republican House cleaning.
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Eric Boyd, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago, said it may be hard for states to convince a judge that companies' carbon dioxide emissions should be curbed if the federal government does not regulate the gas.
The 787, the first jetliner made from a majority of lightweight carbon fiber composites, eliminates hot, heavy and hard-to-maintain pneumatic systems that power key parts of the jet.
Road pricing or carbon taxes could replace some of that lost revenue, but new taxes are always hard to impose, because those who lose out oppose them and those who benefit keep quiet.
Under the European emissions-trading scheme carbon does have a price in Britain, but it is too low to be effective and is hard to increase.
In hard-hit Kansas, there were at least six storm-related deaths: two siblings who died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator, three people in fatal vehicle accidents and an elderly woman who died of hypothermia sweeping snow off her steps, Gov. Sam Brownback said.
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