All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.

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If you took a 15 inch artillery shell moving at the velocity it typically goes at, and take that amount of kinetic energy versus the resistive capacity of a sheet of tissue paper, that's the scale that we're looking at here.

如果你有1个15英寸的炮弹,按照经典的速度移动，会消耗大量的动能,抵抗来自于一张薄纸的阻力，这就是我们在这儿看到的尺度。

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Producing one tonne of paper requires the same amount of energy as iron or steel.

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There are many cases of poor driving which are not getting to court because of the vast amount of paper work required, let alone time for all this to be processed and time in court.

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"We've worked out what it would cost - not just to reduce the amount of paper we're producing every day but to wipe it out, " says Caroline Kimbell, head of licensing at the National Archives, the official archive of the UK government.

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