ECO CITY will use wind energy to generate 10% of the complex's power (more than any other high-rise in the world), as well as solar water heating systems and solar-powered lighting technology.

ECO CITY将利用风能产生所使用复合能源的10%(这个值要大于世界上其他任何高层建筑)，同时它还将采用太阳能热水系统以及太阳能照明技术。

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In response, the World Bank has rolled out "lighting Africa", an ambitious effort to get 250m of the poorest Africans on clean-energy lighting by 2030.

为了解决这个问题，世界银行倡议了一项叫做“照明非洲”的宏伟方案—到2030年为止让二亿五千万最穷的非洲人民用无污染的能量照明自己的家庭。

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"Unless you're a world-class photographer, you're probably not going to think through things the way a professional photographer will in terms of lighting and detail," he said.

“除非你是一个世界级的摄影师，不然你可能不会像专业的摄影师一样，考虑到灯光和细节等问题。”他说道。

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But the US will start banning the traditional bulbs from the start of next year and a very vocal opponent is Howard Brandston, one of the most respected lighting experts in the world who was asked to redesign the lighting of the Statue of Liberty as part of the 1986 restoration.

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He claimed that in 10 years, LEDs will replace at least half of the world's fluorescent bulbs, which have been the main source of workplace lighting since shortly after World War II.

NPR: Goodbye Fluorescent Bulb? Philips Says Yes.

In keeping with the times, European companies like IKEA also began to phase out the sale of incandescent bulbs in stores in the USA and around the world in favour of new energy saving lighting.

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