Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2011
A team led by the University of Alberta has confirmed that inorganic mercury (Hg) found worldwide in ocean water is transformed into monomethylmercury (MMHg)—a potent and bio-accumulative neurotoxin—in the seawater. In a 1991 paper discussing concerns with mercury and monomethylmercury, William F. Fitzgerald and Thomas W.
Green Car Congress
JULY 22, 2010
The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. The host site for the pilot project is Cedar Lane Farms in Wooster, Ohio. DOE Share: $6,239,542).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2009
million Series A round of financing led by venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DFJ Mercury, both leading investors in early-stage clean technology companies. Glycos Biotechnologies , Inc. has closed a $5.0
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
The collaboration also generated the recent complete conversion of all Lear North American Ford seating cushion foam to Lear SoyFoam. “We There are still many other applications in which traditional foam can be converted to bio-based soy foam on vehicles, such as energy-absorption areas, steering wheels and armrests.
Charged EVs
MAY 31, 2022
Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln. That line was located at a US “supplier partner” that is building low volumes of the Zevo 600 while GM converts its CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, for mass production of Zevo 600 vans.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. At that point, we expect the aftermarket companies prices to have come down sufficiently so that their conversions will be attractive to owners of hundreds of thousands of hybrids already on the road. So far, most start as hybrids.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. E In a 2013 study, Sandberg and his colleague Stuart Armstrong suggested deploying automated self-replicating robots on Mercury to build a Dyson swarm.
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