Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

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. At the 1895 International Geographical Congress, Rebeur-Paschwitz proposed setting up a worldwide network of seismological stations.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2024

The original version of this post by Benjie Holson was published on Substack here , and includes Benjie’s original comics as part of his series on robots and startups. Sure, that would be nice, but if you invented an invisibility cloak that required some mercury and neodymium to manufacture would you toss the recipe? Famously hard.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Consumer electronics can cause deadly pollution by degrading into hazardous materials (including lead, mercury, and arsenic) when left in landfills. The company’s namesake laptop is designed for easy access to its internal hardware. Only 46 percent had confidence in efforts to reduce the effects of global climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Its gas technologies extract water, mercury, sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide and other contaminants from raw natural gas. Thomas Russell products are now part of the UOP Russell line. Honeywell’s UOP is a leader in natural gas treating technologies, which currently are used in QP’s LNG and gas processing facilities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

In all of this, we must also recognize that climate change will affect other parts of our core mission, such as protecting air and water quality, and we must include those considerations in our future plans. Jackson wrote that EPA will also focus on improving EPA’s internal operations, from performance measures to agency processes.

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EPA 2010 Climate Change Mercury 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

million received a year ago from groups such as Google.org and DJF Mercury. Runkle is currently CEO of EcoMotors International ( earlier post ), Chairman of EaglePicher Corporation and an operating executive with Tennenbaum Capital Partners. The ETF selection means a $250,000 pre-seed award of a reserved amount up to $1 million.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

Eventually the linings [of devices] break, and when they're rained upon, the very toxic materials [they contain] — mercury, lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium — come out. This is a problem of international magnitude, that has homeland security risks around it. We all have to be part of the solution.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 10, 2021

White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. He was part of a team there developing missile and rocket systems, including the Atlas missile, which was used in Friendship 7. The Navy assigned him to work at aircraft manufacturer Convair , in San Diego.

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Power Powered Virginia Los Angeles 93

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

EcoBoost engine at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January, Ford had also shown a Lincoln C (C-size) concept car powered by a 1.6-liter, 2010 Mercury Milan and Milan Hybrid. At the debut of the 3.5L liter, four-cylinder EcoBoost engine mated to a dual-clutch Powershift Transmission. Earlier post.)

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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. Electric vehicles are powered by batteries instead of internal combustion engines. But many feel the electric car’s time has arrived.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2018

KULR Technology has reached agreement with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to be the exclusive manufacturing and distribution partner for the patented Internal Short Circuit (ISC) device which causes predictable battery cell failures in lithium-ion batteries, making them easier to study and, therefore, safer. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change. The first component aims to reduce the damage resulting from changes in climate (“adaptation”), while the last five aim to reduce the pace and magnitude of these changes (“mitigation”).

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Cars That Think

JULY 9, 2022

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. New York City, summer of 1944 Patents One U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target system (mercury), where neutrons are produced at by the collision of high-energy protons with the Hg target: 695 ns pulse with 60 Hz rep. Specs for the 1.4

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. We believe both NiMH and Li-Ion are ready.

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Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

Called high-numerical-aperture EUV lithography, it involves a major overhaul of the system’s internal optics. That’s due in part to using smaller and smaller wavelengths of light, but it has also required greater numerical aperture and improved processing techniques. The illustration shows today’s commercial system with a 0.33

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. Part of the reason for its success is the price, which keeps falling—from $595 at its introduction to $149 currently, for which the consumer gets graphics and sound equal to or better than that provided by machines that cost five times as much. It’s a personal challenge.

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Engine Design Personal Production 118

Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

In part one of our summary, we look at the leaders and the chasing pack. As part of a partnership with Renault, Nissan will launch the LEAF in Europe and North America in 2010 before a global release in 2012 (see article ). So who is leading the green car race? The green car race – the leaders.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

While other national and international organizations have been supportive at government hearings, they havent yet begun to advocate for PHEVs. Unless/until PV cells become more efficient, and are part of the original installation, they will seriously affect the cars aerodynamics and will be far less durable than metal.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. San Jose Mercury News ). As part of this plan, we will deliver a significant fleet of PHEVs powered by lithium-ion batteries to a wide variety of global commercial customers, with many coming to the U.S.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

As part of an aggressive deployment strategy for improving fuel efficiency across its product line-up in the near-to medium-term, Ford will offer its first-generation turbocharged, gasoline direct-injection EcoBoost engines ( earlier post ) in 90% of its product lineup by 2013. Click to enlarge.

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