Sentences with phrase «from a car exhaust»

Those techniques have led to everything from the development of catalysts that remove poisonous carbon monoxide from car exhaust to the understanding of how ice crystals in stratospheric clouds supercharge atmospheric chlorine's ability to destroy the planet's protective ozone layer.

Inhalable and almost invisible to the eye, this type pollution comes from car exhaust, coal - fired power plants, and other industrial processes.

Anthropologists say women prized since 5000 B.C.; New mega-Earth discovered; Making fuel from car exhaust; and more...

That's because it contains ethers and alcohols, oxygen - rich compounds that are designed to prevent the build - up, especially in cold weather, of carbon monoxide from car exhausts.

Platinum from the converters emerges from car exhausts as a fine metallic dust.

According to Leguay, lead from car exhausts that finds its way into the soil of vineyards next to major roads is only a «very minor» source of contamination.

Researchers from Washington State University and Tufts University have demonstrated for the first time that a single metal atom can act as a catalyst in converting carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide, a chemical reaction that is commonly used in catalytic converters to remove harmful gases from car exhaust.

Platinum, used in products ranging from car exhaust systems to wedding rings, may fall as much as 11 percent to $ 890 an ounce in the first half of 2006, according to Johnson Matthey, the world's largest distributor of platinum.

They aren't the only cause of pollution from car exhausts.

It's a fun article, especially where he ambiguously insinuates catalytic converters helped reduce Co2 output from car exhaust (reduction by association with reduction of other pollutants?).

The city already had relatively low levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulates, pollutants from car exhaust that can damage lungs and exacerbate asthma.

Ozone near the ground is created from the soup of emissions from car exhausts, factories and fires, and it is a public - health problem as well as a greenhouse gas.

More: Everybody in London is breathing toxic levels of PM2.5 Just ending pollution from car exhaust could add three weeks to your life Even in polluted cities, it is still better to bike and walk It's time to dump diesel

Not exact matches

LEIPZIG / FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move that could accelerate a shift away from the combustion engine and force manufacturers to pay to improve exhaust systems.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to be mirrored in other parts of Europe and to force automakers to pay to improve exhaust systems or switch to cleaner vehicles.

These same private cars are the most wasteful form of transportation from the point of view of exhausting scarce resources.

According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».

When foraging for wild fennel don't collect from the roadside or other locations where the plants are exposed to car exhaust or dogs.

you are carefully removing them from the car to place them gingerly in their beds because you just know they must be totally exhausted from their adventures of the day.....

There's people who are dealing with the consequences of having that environmental impact, the exhaust from all of the trucks and all of the cars that are backed up there day in and day out.»

Recent studies suggested that vehicles in southern California produce only 61 milligrams of ammonia per kilogram of exhaust, a number that would make the cumulative effect of southern California's cars only half that estimated to come from livestock.

BALTIMORE — A glut of nitrogen washing over the land from car and factory exhaust and crop fertilizers is degrading water and air quality and even altering precarious balances in species diversity.

Every day, numerous cars and trucks are wearing on Norway's almost one hundred thousand kilometers of road: Asphalt wear on the tires, the tires wear on the asphalt, exhaust flows out from the vehicles and all is shrouded by road dust, until a rainfall cleanses the air, leaving all the dust and particles in the ditch.

Exhaust from cars and trucks on nearby highways blankets the area, as well.

In Scotland, it mostly originates far away as nitrogen oxides from power stations and car exhausts, which travel on the wind and eventually fall as acid rain.

The compounds were identified in laboratory experiments that mimic the type of conditions which might be found from the combustion and exhaust in cars and trucks, or the grilling of meat over a flame.

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

Dairy farm waste, soil blown from farmlands, pesticides, industrial emissions, vehicle exhaust and dust particles kicked up by cars and the big rigs ferrying produce down Interstate 5 and Highway 99 — the valley's two main arteries — have made this one of the smoggiest places in the nation.

Lackner and colleagues argued in a paper published last July in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that air capture may prove the only way to deal with greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, all those tailpipes and engine exhausts on the world's millions of cars, airplanes and other vehicles.

«This mixture is so rich that much of the gasoline passes through unburnt, and the air in Mexico City is virtually saturated with hydrocarbons from car, truck and bus exhausts.»

So you've designed the perfect carbon capture process, cheap and easily installed in everything from coal power plants to car exhaust systems.

Researchers found that particles in exhaust from cars and trucks can cause epigenetic changes — alterations that affect how genes are switched on and off without changing the DNA sequence itself.

Instead of being embedded in the ion cars, the electrons sit like a cloud of exhaust around each ion, and they can actually leap from ion to ion and back again.

A 2003 Greek study associated a 10 - unit increase in carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas found in car exhaust fumes, with a 46 % hike in deaths from cardiovascular disease.

Everyday we're exposed to thousands of toxins... from the chemicals in the coke zero you guzzled down at lunch to the car exhaust fumes you breathe in walking down the road.

VOCs come from a variety of sources, including car exhaust and off - gassing from everyday household products.

Everyone is exposed to harmful toxins in almost everything they do, whether it be exhaust from cars, chemicals coming from construction projects, work - related chemical exposure, and radiation exposure.

Once we got home I was exhausted from lugging around the suitcases, car seat, stroller, toys and Noah all day long.

People who live in big cities are exposed to car exhaust fumes and industrial chemicals, or if you live in the country you may be exposed to fertilizers and pesticides from neighbouring farms.

The Legacy of Remembering In 1943, Rena Finder, age 14, stepped exhausted from a train car into the fall night and looked, for the first time, on Auschwitz - Birkenau.

Shame this car's spec, which also includes the sports exhaust and bi-xenon lights, comes with a heavyweight price tag — a faintly eye - watering # 61,402, up from # 51,728 basic.

From the flush door handles to the dual exhaust tips integrated into the voluptuous rear end, it looked more than a one - off than a production car.

In wet conditions it would certainly stick four exhaust pipes up to anything short of a Volkswagen Golf R, and there's a real thrill to exercising such performance from a car that feels so compact.

Outside the car — and audible from a football field away — a familiar mix of exhaust grumble, jetlike induction whoosh, and wastegate pshht fills the air.

And if you believe the side - exit exhaust, it's one of just 562 GT350s to leave the factory in 1965 — for 1966, the exhaust outlet was moved from the side to the rear of the car.

Our test car is a 1.8 - litre model, impressively boosted from 124 to 231bhp and from 123 to 190 lb ft. Along with BBR's ECU remap, there's also a new inlet manifold, an Eaton MP62 supercharger, an air - to - water intercooler, high - flow injectors and a stainless steel sports exhaust.

The roars and bellows from the exhaust might be worth the car's admission price alone.

Our favourite features include the car's small but prominent rear roof - spoiler, as well as the pair of exhaust tailpipes that poke out from either side of a rear valance.

As well as being more powerful than the standard GTB, the 488 Pista's engine is lighter, too, thanks to the use of inconel exhaust manifolds and a lighter crankshaft and flywheel from the Challenge car, plus the use of titanium conrods and a carbonfibre intake plenum.

The howl of the BMW motor — especially on cars fitted with the optional side - exit exhausts — gets better and better as the revs rise, and, combined with the added sensations you get from driving without a roof, it provides a superb soundtrack to a truly unique motoring experience.