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[ScienceD] 3-D printing: The greener choice - Science Daily - 2013-10-04

3-D printing: The greener choice

A life cycle impact analyses on three products, an orange juicer, a children's building block and a water spout, showed that making the items on a basic 3-D printer took from 41 percent to 64 percent less energy than making them in an overseas factory and shipping them to the US.


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