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Process for Hydrogen Production from Sodium Sulfite Solutions Resulting from Capture of SO2 from Coal Flue Gas

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under illumination from a low pressure mercury lamp. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903766w. A paper on their work was published 1 June in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. A number of technologies have been employed for the capture and disposal of SO 2 from a flue gas stream. Cunping Huang, Clovis A.

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PHEV Blowback

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Mercury is toxic. " As someone who has been enthusiastically watching and promoting plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, I was concerned that the headline of an article in USA Today (“Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution,” Feb. Soot particles can make it hard to breathe, especially for asthmatics.

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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. Chemistry of Materials Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/cm200949. Earlier post.) Ceder presentation, March 2010).

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) estimates that the current power grid could handle many tens of millions of cars plugging in at off-peak hours before wed have any capacity issues [See EPRI article PDF ]. What about battery safety?

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