Building Mercury Store 
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
JANUARY 31, 2021
As countries invest in large-scale clean energy transition programs and begin to phase out internal combustion engines, securing the minerals required to build batteries for storing renewable energy and powering electric vehicles is increasingly critical.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2010
to build FutureGen 2.0, The plant’s new boiler, air separation unit, CO 2 purification and compression unit will deliver 90% CO 2 capture and eliminate most SO x , NO x , mercury, and particulate emissions. an advanced coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage network.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
The US Department of Energy has signed final cooperative agreements with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and Ameren Energy Resources that formally commit $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to build FutureGen 2.0. The Alliance will also build a CO 2 pipeline network from Meredosia to the sequestration site. Earlier post.).
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2022
Over the years, memory has been made up of vacuum tubes, glass tubes filled with mercury and, most recently, semiconductors. The first electronic digital computer capable of storing instructions and data in a read/write memory was the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine, known as the Manchester “Baby.”
Cars That Think
MARCH 5, 2025
ASML I was updating my grandfather about the work I was doing in my lab at ASML , a Netherlands-based company that develops and builds equipment for manufacturing semiconductor chips. Lithography systems in the 1980s used mercury lamps that radiated at wavelengths of 436 nanometers (violet light) and eventually 365 nm (near-ultraviolet).
Cars That Think
OCTOBER 24, 2024
At age 8, he got bored with a telegraph-building kit he received as a gift and repurposed it into a telephone. Now they are collaborators on a new method to store big data in a tamperproof, zero-energy-cost medium. Clark Johnson says he has wanted to be a scientist ever since he was 3.
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