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Big Science tools for clean transportation: neutron scattering at ORNL

Green Car Congress

In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target system (mercury), where neutrons are produced at by the collision of high-energy protons with the Hg target: 695 ns pulse with 60 Hz rep. Specs for the 1.4

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Who is winning the green car race? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The vehicle scooped the Car of the Year award in Japan in its debut year, and the third generation of the model took the prize again in 2009. When sales of the Civic Hybrid started to flag, Honda introduced the Insight Hybrid earlier this year. In 2005, it launched the Ford Escape Hybrid – the first hybrid electric SUV.