Electrek

APRIL 20, 2023

Mercury’s recently unveiled electric outboard motors are now on their way to customers after the company announced the beginning of shipments of the Avator 7.5e. more… The post Water testing reveals performance of Mercury’s first electric boat outboard motors appeared first on Electrek.

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Water Motors Motor Motoring 103

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Implementation Plan addresses the following components: air quality; acid sensitive lakes and accumulated aerial deposition; water quantity/quality; aquatic ecosystem health—fish status and health, benthic invertebrates and other aquatic biota; wildlife toxicology; terrestrial biodiversity and habitat disturbance; and data management.

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Oil-Sands Canada Oil Water 274

Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2024

SpaceX has responded to a critical report from CNBC alleging that it has repeatedly polluted waters in Texas this year. In its report, CNBC alleged that SpaceX violated environmental regulations by “repeatedly releasing pollutants into or near bodies of water in Texas.”

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Water Pollution Texas Mercury 89

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

In all of this, we must also recognize that climate change will affect other parts of our core mission, such as protecting air and water quality, and we must include those considerations in our future plans. Protecting America’s Waters. Improving Air Quality. Other themes include: Assuring the Safety of Chemicals.

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EPA 2010 Climate Change Mercury 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

UOP’s separation technology and equipment remove contaminants such as water, carbon dioxide and sulfur compounds (hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, etc.) Its gas technologies extract water, mercury, sulfur compounds, carbon dioxide and other contaminants from raw natural gas.

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Qatar Gas Mercury Oil 199

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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Ford Renewable Escape Mercury 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

IGCC also significantly reduces criteria emissions—sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, mercury and particulate matter—and decreases water consumption by up to 30% (as compared to a conventional coal plant).

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Hydrogen California Energy Tampa 199

Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

A major name in marine mobility is dipping its toe into all-electric motors – Mercury. Mercury Marine is the propulsion-focused division of Brunswick Corporation and has been helping people move quickly and efficiently across the water for 85 years and counting.

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Mercury Motoring Motors Motor 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

WHO estimated in 2012 that 26% of childhood deaths and 25% of the total disease burden in children under five could be prevented through the reduction of environmental risks such as air pollution, unsafe water, sanitation and inadequate hygiene or chemicals. Globally, road traffic injuries killed 135,000 children under 15 years in 2012.

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Environment Pollution Water Waste 186

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. Excessive V in air and water has potential, but poorly documented, consequences for human health.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Mercury Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

Primary benefits of isobutanol-blended gasoline include improved moisture and water resistance, higher energy content, and preventing phase separation in the fuel system and reducing engine corrosion. Gulf offers two octane choices: 93 and 100. Gulf also offers a 16.1% blend for racing applications only.

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Mariner Manufacturer Fuel Mercury 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

In addition, the emphasis of this novel technology is on emission prevention through a patented ionic water scrubbing technique that reduces the greenhouse gas emissions and captures the sulfur, mercury and other contaminants as a solid byproduct. The technology can be manipulated to produce syngas with different H 2 to CO ratios.

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Mercury Nevada Ohio Alternative Fuels 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

TCEP will be an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) 400 MW power/poly-gen plant that will capture 90% of the carbon dioxide, 99% of the sulfur, more than 95% of the mercury, and eliminate more than 90% of the nitrogen oxides produced by the process. Combustion of the H 2 -rich fuel gas will produce water vapor.

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Coal Texas Oil CO2 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Natural gas must be developed with safeguards to reduce impacts on water, air quality, land, nearby communities and ecosystems. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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Gas Asia Mercury Chevron 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Continuing substitution of gas for coal (and in some instances for oil) will remain an effective short- and middle-term decarbonization measure and an economic boon only insofar as methane leakage from production and transport is held to low levels and drinking water is not adversely impacted, PVCAST noted.

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Climate Change Climate Obama Clean 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

In the case of ORNL’s SNS, the target is mercury. SNS produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers short (microsecond) proton pulses to a target system (mercury), where neutrons are produced at by the collision of high-energy protons with the Hg target: 695 ns pulse with 60 Hz rep. Specs for the 1.4

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Transportation Clean Cleaning Li-ion 316

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. Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations. SOCs are chemical (e.g., solvents) or materials (e.g.,

Honda 150

Honda Green Manufacturer North America 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2010

What emissions (natural and anthropogenic) and processes lead to sulfate formation over California coastal waters and in urbanized coastal areas? What sources and processes contribute to atmospheric mercury concentrations in California? What is the contribution from ship emissions?

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Climate Change Climate Pollution California 210

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The violent vertical thrusts of the quake ruptured gas lines and water mains. Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock. Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum The estimated 7.9-magnitude

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Japan Mercury Syria Gas-Electric 144

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

That figure does not include damages from climate change, harm to ecosystems, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security, which the report examines but does not monetize.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2021

While reconstructing Ørsted's experiments, Faraday was not entirely convinced that electricity acted like a fluid, running through wires just as water runs through pipes. He took a deep glass vessel, secured a magnet upright in it with some wax, and then filled the vessel with mercury until the magnetic pole was just above the surface.

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Davis Motoring Motors Motor 145

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

In 1894, a German chemist named Herman Frasch plotted a process of tapping a sulfur-containing mineral deposit by pumping it with superheated water. The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. The sulfur will melt and bubble up to the surface.

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Renewable Mercury Waste Lithium Ion 116

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 28, 2023

But, mixed with a bit of almond milk (my lactose intolerance seems to be aggravated by hot bean water) and I’ve an acceptable cuppa joe that gets me going each morning. I kinda dig the full-width front lightbar - someone in Hyundai’s design department truly loved the Mercury Sable, I’m sure, and adapted their work to the modern LED age.

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Hyundai MPG Mercury Hawaii 104

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2022

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. If they get back into the land and water, it has very negative effects on the health of our vegetation, our animals, and our people.

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Waste Al Gore Gore Mercury 145

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit. The MEMS version, of course, is only a few millimeters in size, and instead of mercury, it uses a suspended block of silicon. Top: David Little/The Mercury News/Getty Images; Bottom: PurpleAir.

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Stimulus Package Stimulus Mercury Powered 102

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. In the case of moving water, a turbine harvests the energy in the flow to generate hydroelectricity.

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Powered Power Solar Energy 145

Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

The greatest responsibility for us as a company is dealing with climate change,” says Daimler Trucks as it lobbies the EPA to water down emissions regulations. For one company (particularly one with controversial policies and a mercurial leader) to dominate the electric car market is bad news for consumers.

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GM Climate Change Charging Mercury 52

Cars That Think

JULY 29, 2023

The historical progression of wavelengths went from 365 nanometers, generated using a mercury lamp, to 248 nm, via a krypton-fluoride laser, in the late 1990s, and then to 193 nm, from an argon-fluoride laser, at the beginning of this century. Nevertheless, the industry has had to make that wavelength change a number of times.

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Light Mercury Manufacturer Belgium 98

Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

The company explains what differentiates its battery technology on its website : While Alsym and lithium-ion cells may look similar, we take advantage of inherently non-flammable and non-toxic materials, and our electrolyte is water-based.

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Battery Batteries Boston Solar 40

Baua Electric

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Especially for commercial customers who are often more spreadsheet-driven, where the benefits of longer-term fuel and maintenance savings are more clear than they are to the mercurial consumer. But commercial EV prices can still be quite eye-watering.

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Ford Gas Gas-Electric Installation 52

Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Improper disposal poses risks such as soil and water contamination. 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. Recycling reduces the need for new material extraction.

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Battery Batteries Lithium Ion Energy Storage 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

The tailings storage facility at Imperial Metals Corporation’s Mount Polley mine was breached , early Monday morning, releasing an undetermined amount of water and tailings in the early morning of 4 August. On Tuesday, Imperial reported that “ The tailings dam breach that caused a water and tailings discharge … has stabilized.

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Mercury Water Waste Canada 225

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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Ozone Mercury United Kingdom 2008 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2010

Contrary to claims made by industry and government in the popular press, the oil sands industry substantially increases loadings of toxic PPE [priority pollutants] to the AR and its tributaries via air and water pathways. The pollutants found include mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium. Kelly et al.

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Oil-Sands Pollution Oil Universal 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Microbes convert naturally occurring mercury in soils into methylmercury in newly flooded soils—such as when dams are built for hydroelectric projects—by degradation of labile organic carbon and associated changes in geochemical conditions. fold increase in estuarine surface waters.

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Mercury Canada Mariner Carbon 199

The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The FX11 has specialized lateral grooves to channel water and slush away from the tires footprint for enhanced performance. Tread blocks on a winter tire need to be designed with one eye on grip and another on the evacuation of water or slush.

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Mercury Water USA SUV 104

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 2, 2024

Generally, tread patterns on three-season tires are smooth and straight, traits which are ideal for repelling water whilst driving in the rain and gripping the road when temperatures have us all sweatin’ to the oldies.

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Water Mercury Canada Environment 104