Interiors were characterized by the economical and innovative use of standard industrial products like aluminum pipe, factory lighting, and warehouse shelving with chemical and pharmaceutical glass and ceramic accessories. (You wouldn't want what your parents liked anyway.) The machine aesthetic of modernism was remade into an industrial arte povera of "found" components for the look that became known and celebrated as High Tech.

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ADSL, a technology that turns a standard telephone line into just such a fat pipe.

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Because producing a requisite amount of electricity from gas results in estimate about 50% of the carbon dioxide for the same coal-based electricity, the only way to meet the proposed standard is to capture the outgoing carbon dioxide, pipe it somewhere, and bury it.

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