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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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A recent United Nations provision has banned the use of mercury in spacecraft propellant. Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based Mercury is a neurotoxin.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. They were “homegrown” businesses—largely created within 3M and commercialized and built with the energy of many internal sponsors and champions. The invention was used by the U.S.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. We were fresh out of ideas for whatever chips the rest of the world might want us to do,” said Charpentier, “So we decided to produce state-of-the-art video and sound chips for the world’s next great video game.” Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in That has to be looked at." ( Reuters ) 3/28/07 "Batteries are not yet an economic or efficient way of storing power.we San Jose Mercury News ). Bloomberg News ).

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CalCars and PHEVs Frequently Asked Questions

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Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the concept of using stored energy in a plug-in hybrids (or electric cars) battery to send power to the electrical grid when necessary. While other national and international organizations have been supportive at government hearings, they havent yet begun to advocate for PHEVs.

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