Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, contributing 25 times more toward warming than carbon dioxide, kilogram for kilogram over a century.

甲烷是一种强有力的温室气体，是二氧化碳对温度升高效果的25倍。

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But when used in an office setting, these same tools can become a powerful ally toward increasing your productivity.

但是，当在办公环境中使用它们时，同样的这些工具可能成为提高您工作效率的功能强大的助手。

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Firmly, I steer them away from cheap, ugly, weakling, mail-order clones and toward absurdly powerful machines that cost a fortune and make the room lights dim when they power up.

我毅然决然将他们带离那些价钱便宜、外形丑陋、功能不全、可以邮购的仿制品，转向那些功能强大得离谱，价格高昂，而且开机时连房间的灯光都会暗下来的机种。

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In the face of environmental, economic disaster, it is the image of the people that stays with us, that remind us of the fragile nature of humanity in the race toward a more powerful society.

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Like the unique mid-engine four-wheel drive Baja Boot that Vic Hickey built in the 30 days prior to the inaugural NORRA Mexican 1000 in 1967, the SRI EV1 will become living proof that innovation with an eye toward the future is a powerful concept that may never become obsolete.

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And that is only on the way to assuring that this story gets told so that it canbegin to serve as a powerful tool toward social change.

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