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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.
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2 .Machines sharing information with other machines is more efficient than having one of us humans gumming up the works.
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3 .But could a smart grid or precision farming, in which the machines inform each other and make subsequent decisions, significantly reduce energy use and, thus, greenhouse gas pollution?
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4 .A new report from eclectic billionaire Richard Branson's Carbon War Room says yes.
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5 .The report claims potential savings of nearly 20 percent of current global emissions, or more than 9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
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6 .The changes could come quickly too, with pollution down 1.5 billion metric tons by the end of the decade.
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7 .But what are we really talking about?
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8 .First off, it's smart meters for home energy use that maximize efficiency.
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9 .And building-wide systems that ensure the lights or air conditioning turn off when not needed.
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10 .It's also smart transportation--planes, trains and automobiles that can talk to each other to more efficiently move goods and people.
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11 .Finally, it's smart agriculture--for example, sensors in the ground that measure moisture or fertility and prevent farmers,
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12 .or their automated proxies, from over-watering or applying too much fertilizer.
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13 .Many barriers exist to ubiquitous machine-to-machine communication, not least of which is a lack of shared standards.
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14 .But enabling the machine conversation might ease our climate change crisis
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15 .Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello,
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