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Innovation inspired by nature: Pre-class activities

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The noise was coming from a variety of sources, but whenever a train sped into a tunnel, it pushed waves of atmospheric pressure through the other end.
When the redesign debuted in 1997, it was 10% faster, used 15% less electricity, and stayed under the 70 dB noise limit in residential areas.
And that’s the end goal for biomimetic design—making products, systems, and cities functionally indistinguishable from the natural world.

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