Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The fifth and final session of negotiations on the establishment of an international mercury convention—International Negotiating Committee on Mercury (INC5)—is taking place this coming week in Geneva. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

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. Mercury receives between 6.2

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Mercury Solar Light Building 141

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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.” Photonic Systems for High Bandwidth, Faster Data Transfer Photonic systems use light instead of electrons to transfer information over long distances with little energy.

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Design Universal Arkansas Mercury 140

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.

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Mercury Fusion United States IDEA 103

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. GM didn’t really have the option of adapting an existing model.

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Commercial Vehicles GMC GM 137

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. So far, SkyCool has installed panels at a number of grocery stores across the United States. It’s a summer night.

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Power Powered Solar Energy 144

Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It features full LED lighting, 30 liters of under-seat storage, replaceable batteries, a combined braking system, fast charging, and a 7-inch TFT instrument cluster. The TFT display provides OTA updates, geofencing, a tire pressure monitoring system, and vehicle tracking and can also store documents. inch TFT cluster.

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India Electrical Electric Re-Charge 100