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MARCH 25, 2020
This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.
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JULY 31, 2017
In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.
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JANUARY 28, 2016
The automotive catalytic converter, developed in the early 1970s primarily by General Motors and BASF/Engelhard and first deployed in 1975, changes exhaust pollutants into CO 2 , water vapor and nitrogen. In addition to the potential for cost reduction, other benefits of SDC’s technology include: Improvements in global air quality.
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DECEMBER 10, 2011
The IPCC’s global assessment of mitigation options for the transport sector places the greatest emphasis on the mitigation potential of improving carbon efficiencies for private vehicles and fuels. For example, WHO estimates that urban air pollution (much of it transport-generated) kills some 1.3 million people annually.
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JUNE 5, 2010
A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels. This area of research is known as tribology.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2009
ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4 ºF) increase. Earlier post.)
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AUGUST 29, 2011
Other environmental concerns have pushed ahead of climate change on a global average basis. Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge. Source: Nielsen.
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