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Fire safety is a complex problem without a single answer. Learn how to engineer and design fire safe spaces.

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Safe and sustainable cities will depend on lithium-ion batteries to power our modern lives. But what are the costs?

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From hoverboards to cell phones, portable electrical power makes life as we know it possible. But it can come with some dangerous possibilities. Let’s investigate, experiment and search for solutions.

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What are solutions to problems of battery disposal? A ‘circular economy’ refers to a system that draws the resources not from mines, but from discarded devices, or e-waste. Could it solve any of the problems related to battery disposal or resource extraction?

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