Cars That Think
APRIL 19, 2022
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.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2012
Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface. In the spring of 2008, satellites detected increased concentrations of bromine, which were associated with a decrease of gaseous mercury and ozone.
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Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
They] will lock in high greenhouse gas emissions, water use and mercury pollution for decades. The study notes that the plants would also emit hydrogen sulfide and mercury, which, if not properly scrubbed and treated, are potentially harmful to human health. —Robert B. —Chi-Jen Yang.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
The researchers used a mixed-integer linear programming model— SWITCH (a loose acronym for Solar, Wind, Hydro and Conventional generators and Transmission)—to analyze least-cost generation, storage, and transmission capacity expansion for western North America under various policy and cost scenarios. —Daniel Kammen.
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. But the materials could show up sooner in a wide array of practical applications, including wind power, energy storage, and nuclear magnetic-resonance machines.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2013
Continue implementation of Clean Air Act requirements on criteria pollutants (such as SO 2 and NO x ) and hazardous air pollutants (such as mercury) to include creating new performance standards for CO2 emissions from existing stationary sources, which would follow the performance standards for new plants released in March 2012.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
metals such as mercury, cadmium, lead and hexavalent chrome) that pose a known threat to health or the environment. Another example of this effort is Honda’s Russells Point, Ohio, transmission plant, which is the first auto plant in America to utilize on-site wind power for a substantial portion of its energy use.
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