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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

The Truth About Cars

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? Today's Junkyard Find is an example of the second type of Marauderization (not to be confused with Moroder ization ) within the world of Ford's Mercury Division.

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Junkyard Find: 1991 Ford Escort LX 4-Door Hatchback

The Truth About Cars

The early 1990s were interesting times for Ford designs, with the demise of the boxy LTD Crown Victoria and the introduction of the new Taurus and Crown Victoria with this distinctive grille treatment. liter engine, from the same family that powered the Mazda Miata and Mercury Capri. liters in this application.

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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

Green Car Congress

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. Earlier post.). The project is supported by H.B.

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Nissan Leaf – Taking Reservations

Revenge of the Electric Car

Read more about it in the San Jose Mercury News Article: Reservations for the all-electric Nissan Leaf start Tuesday. By Dana Hull for the San Jose Mercury News. “For a long time, electric vehicles have been like vaporware,&# said Flynn, an interior designer. The Leaf has a range of 100 miles.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

Technology was on duty miles downwind, where, as the battle against these fires went on for days, even weeks, many residents of the Bay Area and Sacramento River Delta region turned to air-quality sensor networks, particularly AirNow , maintained by the U.S. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.