Innovation News Network

JULY 5, 2023

Learn more about the dangers of mercury emissions from industry and how these can be reduced with an innovative new method. The post How can dangerous mercury emissions from industry be reduced? appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2020

E-waste is a health and environmental hazard, containing toxic additives or hazardous substances such as mercury, which damages the human brain and/or coordination system. E-waste is a health and environmental hazard, containing toxic additives or hazardous substances such as mercury, which damages the human brain and/or coordination system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

Among the HAPs showing decline were hydrochloric acid and mercury. Many of the releases from TRI facilities are regulated under various EPA programs and requirements designed to limit harm to people’s health and the environment. billion pounds of toxic chemicals were disposed of or released into the environment (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The proposed revisions were based on scientific evidence about ozone and its effects on people and the environment, and resulted from a reconsideration of the primary and secondary ozone standards set at 0.075 ppm in 2008. Earlier post.) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The current sampling approaches are poorly designed for the purposes of providing an integrated understanding of the impacts of the oil sands industry on the aquatic environment, according to the governments. PAHs, mercury, arsenic, etc.). Terrestrial biodiversity and habitat disturbance.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Our industry is at the intersection of three critical global issues—the economy, energy and the environment. As part of its aggressive electrification plan, Ford in 2009 doubled the number and volume of its hybrid electric vehicles to include the award-winning Ford Fusion and Escape hybrids and Mercury Milan and Mariner hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2010

Ford Mustang, F-150, Focus, Flex, Escape, Expedition and Econoline as well as Mercury Mariner, Lincoln MKS and Navigator also use the sustainable material. The 2 million Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles on the road today with bio-foam seats equates to a reduction in petroleum oil usage of approximately 1.5 million pounds.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Within the source code of the Tesla App’s recent update were also references to three new color options: Deep Crimson Multicoat, Abyss Blue Multicoat, and Mercury Silver Metallic. Mercury Silver Metallic I tried to recreate the colors, but I´m not sure if I got them right. In case you missed it: Tesla App Update 4.2.1

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2019

Continental has submitted a plan of action to the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Construction and Climate Protection with which the company intends immediately to reduce the lead content in some of its electronic components to legally prescribed maximum quantities in accordance with the End of Life Vehicles Directive.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2010

under illumination from a low pressure mercury lamp. Results from using the ultraviolet (UV) photolytic process for production of hydrogen from aqueous Na 2 SO 3 solutions showed that the quantum efficiency of hydrogen production can reach 14.4% Huang et al. Cunping Huang, Clovis A. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/es903766w.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Air pollution from the 10,000 largest polluting facilities in Europe cost citizens between €102–169 billion (US$135–224 billion) in 2009, according to a new report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) which analyzed the costs of harm to health and the environment caused by air pollution. Log scale) Source: EEA.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Maybe you didn’t know there was a coal-fired power plant spewing greenhouse gases, mercury and a very bad vibe just blocks from Capitol Hill. And I know I should especially be there on March 2 for the Capitol Climate Action when thousands will participate in the largest mass civil disobedience on behalf of the climate in U.S.

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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. Duke Professor Emeritus of Biogeochemistry at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2022

Most recently, Lindh spotted three Model Y vehicles that appeared to be painted in Giga Berlin’s three color options, namely Deep Crimson Multicoat, Abyss Blue Multicoat, and Mercury Silver Metallic. The State Office of the Environment has not provided a specific timeline on when to expect full approval.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Burning coal, a non-renewable resource, produces about 20% of the world’s greenhouse gases, but also releases harmful chemicals into the environment such as mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and sulfuric acid, responsible in some areas for acid rain and respiratory illness. —Daniel Kammen.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Brandenburg’s Office of the Environment could also grant Tesla’s long-awaited full approval for Giga Berlin in a few days, the report stated. . Brandenburg’s Office of the Environment finished online meetings about Giga Berlin’s full approval last week.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

ORNL’s current mission is to conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation’s leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 5, 2025

Recalling my astronomy lessons with my grandfather, I realized that many aspects of this process have intriguing similarities to what happens during a supernova: a sudden explosion, an expanding cloud of plasma debris, and a shock wave that slams into a thin hydrogen environment. Interstellar material consists mostly of hydrogen.)

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The sightings suggest that Tesla’s Gigafactory in Germany has refined the Model Y production process and will be more than ready to go once it receives its final permit from the State Environment Agency. The three new Tesla paint colors expected to come out of Giga Berlin are Deep Crimson, Abyss Blue, and Mercury Silver. .

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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.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

At the same time, in the macro-environment here, logistics, moving parts, sourcing parts has become increasingly more difficult, which is a well-known issue in the world right now, as well as challenges in the labor market.” “That has increased demand for service.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Based on the source code of the Tesla app, Giga Berlin’s three new color options are Deep Crimson Multicoat, Abyss Blue Multicoat, and Mercury Silver Metallic. Recently, Brandenburg’s State Office for the Environment granted Tesla an early permit to fully paint 250 car bodies over 60 days.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2011

Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2024

TCEQ and the EPA have allowed continued operations because the deluge system has always complied with common conditions set by an Individual Permit, and causes no harm to the environment. Specifically: – We only use potable ( drinking ) water in the system’s operation. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

John Shegerian People might say, how is that possible given that we’re talking more about environment and there are more companies like yours? 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.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Scientists have been “ radiation hardening ” electronics—designing them to function in a radioactive environment—since the 1960s. There’s always a more harsh environment.” But “if we’re doing something on Mercury or we’re doing something close to the Sun—any high temperature stuff … silicon carbide’s your winner.”

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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. Its goal is to be solvent-free, not just to replace a given solvent with a slightly less toxic alternative, said Bob Proctor, Manager, Environment and Cost Planning, Honda North America. SOCs are chemical (e.g.,

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 3, 2007

It is not the first time the governor has made bold promises on the environment while his administration dragged its feet behind the scenes. Schwarzenegger has vetoed bills that would put new taxes on polluters, spur the development of alternative fuels and help clean the air.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 9, 2024

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? It’s like saying you want to invent an invisibility cloak and want to be able to make it from materials you can buy from Home Depot. Famously hard.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The Frasch process can be tremendously damaging to the surrounding environment and mineworkers’ health. The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. Sulfur miners have used the same process ever since.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

What are the challenges remaining to get us to truly autonomous vehicles in any environment, and what are the important distinctions for military use as compared to consumer use? Riding on the success of MOLA, the Goddard team develops new lidar instruments for Earth, the Moon and Mercury.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But about a decade ago, our research group at Stanford designed a material that’s remarkably efficient at sending heat out to that reservoir of cold while preventing heating from both the sun and the environment. With the ambient environment as a hot reservoir, we can use the coldness from deep space to create the cold reservoir.

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Drive Electric NZ

APRIL 5, 2023

“Moving to electric vehicles as quickly as possible is the right move for the environment and the economy. The vehicles already registered will save two million tonnes of greenhouse emissions over the lifetime of those vehicles.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

The company’s first battery storage product is called Alsym Green, and it says it’s the “only high-performance, non-flammable option suitable for stationary and grid storage in situations where the risk of fire increases as the mercury rises.”

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

With the global recession making drivers think about their wallets and the environment ahead of power and good looks, a green car race has emerged with manufacturers keen to offer more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles than their rivals. The Green Piece Column: Tuesday 27 October. So who is leading the green car race?

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Spent lithium-ion batteries contain hazardous materials like lead, cadmium, and mercury, which, if not properly disposed of, can leach into soil and water, causing significant ecological harm. Storage Environment A cool, dry place is ideal for storing EV batteries. This level helps avoid issues related to overcharging or undercharging.

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