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Mercury Marine Launches New Lower-Emission Outboard Motors with Orbital FlexDI System

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Mercury Marine , the largest US outboard manufacturer, recently introduced two new OptiMax outboard models for the northern hemisphere summer. A four-star label identifies engines that meet the Air Resources Board’s Sterndrive and Inboard marine engine 2009 exhaust emission standards. liter engine platform.

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Hyundai Shows Refreshed Elantra N in Shanghai

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The sleek and smooth nose has a light bar bookended by new headlamps (maybe Mercury was simply ahead of its time) and appropriately grumpy angles have been given to the bumper and intake areas. inline-four, along with appropriately entertaining crackle-n-bang settings for the exhaust. Images: Hyundai] Become a& TTAC insider.

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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. Engine-out exhaust contains typically 1?3%

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Rare Rides Icons: The Lincoln Mark Series Cars, Feeling Continental (Part XLII)

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Throughout its (too long) tenure, the model dropped almost all notions of the increasingly irrelevant Designer Edition models. The MN12 was finalized with a 113-inch wheelbase, and put into production on the 10th generation Ford Thunderbird and seventh generation Mercury Cougar for the 1989 model year. And that was all.

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on novel concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO 2 exhausted from industrial processes. An existing CO 2 absorption facility for the project is operational at Moss Landing, Calif.,

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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Just thinking about the crew of people needed to tramp around to change all those batteries is exhausting, and to actually do it would be prohibitively expensive and impractical. A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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TCEP will be an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) 400 MW power/poly-gen plant that will capture 90% of the carbon dioxide, 99% of the sulfur, more than 95% of the mercury, and eliminate more than 90% of the nitrogen oxides produced by the process. The project is supported by H.B.

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