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Dire scenarios predicting the impact of global warming on the Earth's future
fail to take into account technological advancements. The faculty's laboratories
are currently developing groundbreaking solutions that could help prevent
climate change and provide cheap and efficient energy – without harming the
environment. Producing fuel out of thin air is just one example.
Dr. Roey Tsezana

greenhouse gas—into the atmosphere. as described by the XPRIZE Foundation. And to
We are not releasing greenhouse gasses into the exacerbate matters, further environmental harm
air for no reason, of course. The bulk of the carbon is caused by the pollutants emitted during the
dioxide humanity releases into the atmosphere process of burning fossil fuels.
originates from the burning of fossil fuels—coal, “The rate at which nature is being destroyed is
oil and petroleum products, and natural gas—in such that even our grandchildren and children will
large quantities. Humanity mines or extracts these suffer from it in a very real way,” says Associate
substances from the earth, where they lay buried Prof. Carmel Rotschild from the Technion’s Faculty
for hundreds of thousands, or even millions of of Mechanical Engineering. “Our parents’ and our
years, then burns them—releasing into the air own generation are leaving nothing but scorched
the carbon that was locked inside them, in the earth to our descendants.”
form of carbon dioxide. This, in turn, causes This is the vicious cycle of energy production,
global warming, with all its adverse implications, energy consumption, and the release of pollutants

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