The World's Fastest Elevator Will Shoot You Up and Down at 45 MPH

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The fastest elevator in the world is in Taipei. It moves at 38 miles per hour. But it looks like that record will be blown away in 2016. Hitachi plans to build an advanced passenger elevator in the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, a skyscraper in Guangzhou, China that is 580 yards tall. Hitachi, which has been building high-speed elevators since 1968, promises that this one will move 45 miles per hour.

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I feel a Willy Wonka moment coming on...

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Much of what they are doing in Arizona is simply heinous. There is a multitude of highly toxic elements such as hormone disrupting pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and chemical species that are often not removed from waste as filters are in a constant state of degradation and replacements extremely costly.

Any trust in their snows quality becoming a fully subjective matter and that matters because what they are doing ends up in our shared ecosystem.

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So anyone skiing there can count on conditions being "cloudy with a chance of pee squalls".I know, I know, a horrible pun. ;-)

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Well. I can turn *any* snow yellow. Take that, Arizona!

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