Fortunately, the treatment wasn't so extreme that I had to suck air through a straw, or anything like that.

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Plans to suck carbon from the air by growing trees conflict with the need to grow crops.

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Both need lots of oxygen, but only one tends to suck up all the air in the room.

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Such storms produce lightning and rain, but dry air will suck up most of the precipitation before it hits the ground.

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It combines a dehumidifier with a water purifier, to essentially suck the moisture from the air and, instead of discarding it as one normally would, purify it to make it potable.

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He thinks there'll be phytoplankton boom - bloom, and it'll suck all the CO2 out of the air.

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Just ahead, Luke will talk to a Columbia University scientist about creating mechanical trees that suck toxic carbon emissions out of the air.

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But when Google goes down, just like a room without air, the web starts to suck a little.

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Put another way, residential heating and air conditioning constitute 11.88 percent of the U.S. energy budget: cars only account for 8.9 percent. (see spread sheets 2.2 and 2.6) Worse, a good portion of that energy is wasted: lights get left on, air conditioners churn when you are on vacation, sleeping notebooks suck vampire power.

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