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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

When you walk on a sandy beach, it takes more energy than striding down a sidewalk, because

the weight of your body pushes into the sand.

Turns out, same thing is true for vehicles driving on roads.

The weight of the vehicles creates a very shallow indentation or deflection in the pavement. And it makes

it such that it's continuously driving up a very shallow hill. Jeremy Gregory, a sustainability scientist

at MIT, his team modeled how much energy could be saved and greenhouse gases avoided by simply

hardening the nation's roads and highways. And they found that stiffening 10% of the nation's roads

every year could prevent 440 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions over the next five

decades. That's enough to offset half a percent of projected transportation sector

emissions over that same time period. To put those emissions savings into context, that amount is

equivalent to how much CO2 you'd spare the planet by keeping a billion barrels of oil in the ground,

or by growing seven billion trees for a decade. The results are in the transportation research record.

As for how to stiffen those roads, Gregory says you could mix small amounts of synthetic fibers

or carbon nanotubes into paving materials, or you could pave with cement-based concrete,

which is stiffer than asphalt. And it's worth noting here that the research was funded

in part by the Portland Cement Association. This system could also be a way to shave carbon

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