Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Just like, say, Ford—which was then in the process of killing Mercury, to leave it with only Ford and Lincoln. The company has committed $800 million to that conversion.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So IEEE Spectrum is making one of its occasional forays into science fiction, with a short story by Karl Schroeder about the unexpected outcomes from building a computer out of planet Mercury. They did not orbit, instead floating over a particular spot by light pressure alone. They sent you to acknowledge the Uploaded, is that it?”

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. Another major difference is that the intensity of x-ray scattering increases with the electron density of a material; light elements such as hydrogen and lithium thus make very little contribution to scattering. Specs for the 1.4 MW protons beam: 1 GeV, 1.4 mA, 60 Hz rate.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen. Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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