Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

Mercury

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In a new study, Harvard University researchers found more than 90% of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to increase concentrations of the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) in food webs near indigenous communities. The methylmercury moves into the water and animals, magnifying as it moves up the food chain.

Mercury

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Breathing vanadium-rich aerosols has unknown but potentially adverse health impacts, according to the researchers, who note that the human impacts on the global vanadium cycle parallel impacts on the global cycles for lead and mercury. Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health.

Oil-Sands

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

Gas

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

research facilities for scientists from universities, industry, and other laboratories, as well as to ORNL researchers: Building Technologies Research and Integration Center (BTRIC). In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. The adsorbed water allows detection by neutrons. Specs for the 1.4 mA, 60 Hz rate.

Transportation

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

In 1894, a German chemist named Herman Frasch plotted a process of tapping a sulfur-containing mineral deposit by pumping it with superheated water. The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. The sulfur will melt and bubble up to the surface.

Renewable

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NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. In the case of moving water, a turbine harvests the energy in the flow to generate hydroelectricity.

Power

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

At Northeastern University , in Boston, Matteo Rinaldi's group has demonstrated an event-driven sensor that could help detect a forest fire by reacting to the infrared light emitted from a hot object. Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.

Stimulus Package

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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

Japan

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JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

New York City

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Collectively, these industrial activities yield significant landscape disturbance and habitat loss and add to the controversy regarding water quantity and quality issues. The potential and realized emissions of pollutants, including greenhouse gases and mercury, are also contentious. Source: Kurek et al. Click to enlarge.

Oil-Sands