Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with its auto-emissions problem, word came from Cambridge, Mass., about a more widespread future emissions problem: nitrogen oxides from the SST. During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find out. After...
...results, based on the emissions of the Concorde, showed that supersonic exhaust discharges in the general latitude of Paris and New York would deplete ozone by a risky 16% in the Northern Hemisphere. The ozone blanket would also be thinned significantly in the Southern Hemisphere, where the computer had assumed no SST flights...
...malign quirk of nature, CO has an affinity for hemoglobin more than 200 times as great as that of oxygen. Thus too much carbon monoxide starves the body of oxygen, causing illness and sometimes death-as in the case of the suicide who runs a hose from the engine exhaust to the inside of his car. But how many Americans are inhaling an excessive amount...
...Greed. This small novel leaves Muhlbach dangling between pleasure and despair. Packed with pre-Columbian arcana (Connell himself is a collector), it conveys the joyous release that absorption in a stern hobby can bring. Something alien has penetrated Muhlbach's life and opened vistas he can never exhaust. Not certain whether his response is to beauty or authenticity, Muhlbach nonetheless responds. Yet he is aware of some disquieting side effects: increasing pangs of greed for what he can appreciate but not afford, a habit of judging people by their acquisitions -and of being judged and found wanting in return...
...fuel can be used in any car with a low-compression engine not requiring the antiknock properties of leaded gas. But it will be indispensable in all but a few 1975-model cars. The great majority of those cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into...