So put away your pipe, lock yourself away in a small room with some tinned soup and water, and try to crawl back into reality A.S.A.P.

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If a government-mandated market for pollution offsets ever materializes, the 26-inch pipe hauling away carbon would be able to handle the plant's waste gas and another 5 million tons from other sources in New Jersey.

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The leak was caused by cracks forming on the pipe in an area where the waterproofing tape had pulled away and the pipe was corroding, investigators said.

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The landslide has been blamed on a broken drainage pipe which has become damaged and fallen away.

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Network Rail said workers were laying a pipe underneath the track to allow the water to drain away onto the other side.

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They are calling for nuclear reprocessing to be suspended, claiming the discharge of tiny traces of radioactivity, which are pumped out from a waste pipe, can be detected in seaweed and shellfish as far away as Norway.

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The dome will resemble an inverted funnel, with a pipe leading up to ships waiting at the surface that would take away the oil.

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Two hours drive away in Kulgaon, TU Shenava faces similar problems at his pipe-making factory.

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And although such a phone is at least a decade away from actually becoming reality, those working on the project believe it is far more than just a pipe dream.

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