MIT's work on a zero-carbon city
Imagine if the city of Boston were able to emit no carbon and no waste.
Today, MIT officials are meeting with planners of a city in the Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi that will do exactly that.
It's part of a daring plan by the emirate -- the world's third biggest oil exporter, with 10 percent of the world's known reserves -- to transition to leadership of the world's expertise and funding in alternative fuels as well.
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