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ORNL Spallation Neutron Source achieves 1.55MW record power to enable more discoveries

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Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL Since construction was completed in 2006, the SNS has been a world-leading DOE Office of Science user facility that provides powerful advanced scientific capabilities for thousands of researchers from around the world to study energy phenomena and materials from the atomic scale to mesoscales.

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Ford brand US sales top 2 million for first time since 2007

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Total Ford Motor Company sales (Ford, Lincoln and Mercury) in 2010 totalled 1.935 million, up 19.4% Since its first full year of sales in 2006 through 2010, the Ford Fusion has expanded share of the midsize segment by 5.2 In 2006, Fusion had sales of 142,502 and 6.7% In 2010, Ford brand sales reached 1,756,439 units, up 21.5%

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Indiana U study suggests cost-effectiveness of EPA air quality regs more uncertain than commonly believed

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The bulk of these regulations require national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants; analysis includes the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule. The IU research is based on a re-evaluation of an EPA-sponsored “expert elicitation” study conducted in 2006.

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Ford researchers report detailed study of the effect of different ethanol blend levels on emissions from FFVs

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A team at Ford Motor Company’s Research and Innovation Center in Dearborn conducted a detailed study of the effect of ethanol blend level in emissions, using a 2006 model Mercury Grand Marquis flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) operating on E0, E10, E20, E30, E40, E55, and E80 on a chassis dynamometer. Click to enlarge.

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Obama Administration withdraws proposed rulemaking on strengthened ozone standards

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From reducing mercury and other toxic air pollution from outdated power plants to doubling the fuel efficiency of our cars and trucks, the historic steps we’ve taken will save tens of thousands of lives each year, remove over a billion tons of pollution from our air, and produce hundreds of billions of dollars in benefits for the American people.

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Ceder group at MIT analyzes the limits and opportunities of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials using a Materials Genome approach

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Initial areas of application for the Materials Genome are in energy storage, photovoltaics and photocatalysis, thermoelectrics, and mercury adsorption from high temperature coal gasification. For the paper on phosphates, Ceder and his group obtained their set of known compounds from the 2006 ICSD database. Earlier post.)

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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

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First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. Specs for the 1.4 MW protons beam: 1 GeV, 1.4