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Saying it with balloons... Andrea Ypsilanti, leader of the German Social Democrats in the federal state of Hesse, poses with 328 air-filled balloons near the central German town of Ulrichstein on Tuesday. The action attempts to visualise the saving in carbon dioxide omissions by the use of windmills. To produce the same amount of electricity as by eight windmills per hour in a fossil-fuel burning power plant will cause the omission of 328 cubic metres of carbon dioxide, hence the 328 balloons. AFP
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