The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

gallon gas in order to recoup its cost over the pure-gazzoline version. Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department. liter Ecotec gas-burner did most of the work with its 170 horsepower.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

A number of technologies have been employed for the capture and disposal of SO 2 from a flue gas stream. A typical example is the use of a dilute aqueous sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution to absorb SO 2 from flue gas, forming an aqueous Na 2 SO 3 solution. under illumination from a low pressure mercury lamp.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

During 2012, particularly in the spring and early summer, low natural gas prices led to competition between natural gas- and coal-fired electric power generators. Under current standards and at current fuel prices, 9% of US coal-fired plants are more costly to run than a median-cost natural gas plant, they found.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The process does not require mercury, again reducing raw material costs and eliminating containment costs. The process does not release toxic chlorine gas, eliminating containment costs and associated environmental hazards. The benefits of the process include: Using Lithium Carbonate as feedstock reduces raw material costs.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum The estimated 7.9-magnitude

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

For purposes of this rule, fossil fuel-fired EGUs include utility boilers, IGCC units and certain natural gas-fired stationary combustion turbine EGUs that generate electricity for sale and are larger than 25 megawatts (MW). The proposed rulemaking establishes separate standards for natural gas and coal plants.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 16, 2009

a gallon right now, but gas mileage remains an important factor in choosing a new car. Hybrids from Ford , Honda , Lexus , Mazda , Mercury , Nissan , and Toyota dominated the ratings. Gasoline may be averaging around $2.50 Now the EPA has released 2010 fuel efficiency figures for all new cars and trucks sold in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

The 400-MW TCEP plant is an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) poly-generation facility capable of capturing 90% of the carbon dioxide it produces, as well as 99% of sulfur dioxide, 90% of nitrogen oxide, and 99% of mercury. The hydrogen will be combusted in an advanced combustion turbine, producing a carbon-free flue gas.

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Coal Texas Purchase Carbon 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the already widely-discussed (albeit without much detail) “Clean Power Plan” proposal, which mandates a national average 30% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants from 2005 levels by 2030. Natural gas use for electricity generation will increase by as much as 1.2

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2009

Buyers of a new 2010 Fusion Hybrid or Mercury Milan Hybrid this year will qualify for a $3,400 tax credit. In addition, the system’s Intake Variable Cam Timing (i-VCT) allows the hybrid to more seamlessly transition from gas to electric mode and vice-versa, delivering a near imperceptible hybrid driving experience to the customer.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The right changes to infrastructure, technology and policies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70% by 2050—a crucial deadline for controlling rising temperatures. It’s now or never if humans hope to prevent the mercury from increasing by 1.5° Furthermore, such changes could help avert the looming climate crisis.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Blue Marble Energy’s proprietary AGATE (Acid, Gas and Ammonia Targeted Extraction) system uses different bacterial consortia (“cassettes”) in an anaerobic fermentation process to produce a variety of biochemicals, including short-chain esters, amides and green anhydrous ammonia. It also generates renewable natural gas as a product.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

In addition, the emphasis of this novel technology is on emission prevention through a patented ionic water scrubbing technique that reduces the greenhouse gas emissions and captures the sulfur, mercury and other contaminants as a solid byproduct. Red Lion says that its thermal conversion process is approximately 70% energy efficient.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

IGCC plants gasify solid fuels into syngas, which then is used by a gas turbine combined-cycle system to generate electricity, providing a cleaner, economical coal-to-power option. Chemical scrubbers would filter out pollutants and would separate CO 2 , leaving a hydrogen-rich fuel to power the gas turbine combined-cycle system.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Jackson said that EPA must follow up the progress it made in 2009 with a range of greenhouse gas reduction initiatives with ensuring compliance with the law. The seven themes are: Taking Action on Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

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. Combustion of the H 2 -rich fuel gas will produce water vapor.

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Coal Texas Oil CO2 186

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. HTS induction heaters promise to halve energy use, along with greenhouse gas emissions. The wire had become a “superconductor.”

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IDEA Wind Energy Storage Fusion 120

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Key recommended steps here are: Support continuing expansion of shale-gas production, ensuring that environmental impacts of production and transport do not curtail the potential of this approach. Continue efforts to decarbonize the economy, with emphasis on the electricity sector.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

Sources: The Mercury News , Car and Driver , Reuters The post The real reason Hertz is selling EVs – Charged EVs appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. It isn’t clear if Hertz means to ditch all its Teslas, or just thin the herd.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A sensor network that could monitor an entire forest, or a gas pipeline, or any critical infrastructure, would need thousands or even millions of sensors—and batteries. 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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Stimulus Package Stimulus Mercury Power 89

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2010

Both emit 31% less greenhouse gas emissions than their base conventional models due to their use of hybrid drivetrains, each of which costs approximately $4,000. The Honda Civic Hybrid, Mercury Milan Hybrid and Ford Fusion Hybrid tied for second with an identical environmental score of 7.8. The Prius scored a 9.8 out of a possible 10.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

Triadelphia, WV) This project will pilot-test an open-pond algae production technology that can capture at least 60% of flue gas CO 2 from an industrial coal-fired source to produce biofuel and other high value co-products. The project team plans to process CO 2 -laden flue gas from a Capital Aggregates, Ltd. (DOE Share: $24,243,509).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

The system also holds the potential to reduce the cost of producing chemicals, transportation fuels, and substitute natural gas from gasified coal. DOE and RTI will design, build, and test a warm gas cleanup system—based on RTI’s high-temperature syngas cleanup technology—to remove multiple contaminants from coal-derived syngas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

Ford, Lincoln and Mercury retail sales increased 9% versus a year ago. Other results included: Ford Fusion sales totaled 17,610, a July record and up 66% versus a year ago, and Mercury Milan sales were up 60%. Ford Escape sales totaled 20,241, a July record and up 94% versus a year ago, and Mercury Mariner sales were up 71%.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 26, 2023

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. The only other major difference was the placement of the gas tank, which was slightly relocated for Mark VIII usage. And that was all.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2009

. $800 million will be used to expand DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, which provides government co-financing for new coal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power plants. The goal is to produce fuels from domestic resources while reducing atmospheric CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2010

It’s our desire that this [Ford-Microsoft] partnership minimize the transition for consumers from gas to electric vehicles. The Ford SYNC communications and infotainment system, built on the Windows Embedded Automotive platform, has been installed on more than 2 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles since its launch in 2007.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 3, 2008

Mercury is toxic. " Indeed, the EPRI study's summary clearly states that annual and cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in every one of the nine electricity production and plug-in use scenarios considered (lotsof coal to little or no coal, lots of PHEVs to few of them) would be " reduced significantly."

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

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. The Leaf is just the first of several all-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles about to come on the market. “It’s like charging your cell phone.&#.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Today, the art of turning heat from burning gas, nuclear fission, Earth’s core, the sun, and other sources into useful energy underpins modern life. The first arises from atoms vibrating against one another as typically occurs in a solid; the second arises from bulk movements of particles, such as gas molecules in air.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 129,898, down 31% compared with April 2008. The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted April sales of 8,385 units, down 61.5%. GM delivered a total of 1,534 hybrid vehicles in the month. Sales of cars were down 28.8% to 52,463 units; sales of crossovers were down 15.1% to 42,536 units.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

These connections arise because in many cases the agents of concern are the same, and in many cases the sources of the agents are the same or intimately connected.For example, surface ozone is both an air pollutant and a greenhouse gas. What sources and processes contribute to atmospheric mercury concentrations in California?

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 19, 2007

The basic question addressed, which appears on the study homepage (epri-reports.org) is this: How would air quality and greenhouse gas emissions be affected if significant numbers of Americans drove cars that were fueled by the power grid?

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Reviews of the movie by the score have been fueled by $75 per barrel oil and the fear of $4 per gallon gas. A year ago Ford nabbed a significant endorsement from the Sierra Club for its limited edition Mercury Mariner hybrid (29/35 mpg - gasoline only) and a promise of 250,000 hybrids by 2010. Ford has now done an abrupt about face.

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Ford Hybrid Sierra San Jose 100

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The Prius mid-size gas-electric hybrid posted January sales of 8,121 units, down 28.6% Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 90,596 in January, down 38.9% Camry Hybrid accounted for 5.5% of that (1,141 units), but showed a year-on-year decrease of 69.6%. year-on-year. year-on-year. year-on-year. versus a year ago.

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