Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Challenge. Ruckelshaus also issued final regulations on exhaust-testing procedures, making them a bit more lenient than before. The old tests simulated a 71-mile urban auto trip, starting with a cold engine (which throws off more pollutants than a warm one). To approximate more closely the way a typical car is used during a day (the engine is often already warm from a previous trip), the new rules call for tests from warm and cold starts; this procedure should reduce the average emissions during tests, helping Detroit to meet the standards...
There are good grounds for Detroit's gloom. By raising exhaust temperatures, a device called a catalytic converter can burn away carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Trouble is, this step may also increase the output of nitrogen oxides, which no one yet knows how to curb economically. Unless the automakers can develop radical, new technological solutions, they fear that the expense of meeting the federal requirements may add as much as $600 to the cost of each...
...Palm Coast development, aims to eliminate the "optical pollution" caused by rows of identical houses. He is using many architectural styles and requiring others who build in Palm Coast to do likewise. Noise pollution will be eased by siting residential areas far away from major highways. To reduce auto-exhaust pollution, shopping and commercial centers will be placed within walking or biking distance of most residents. Industry will be mostly light; factory builders must submit strict pollution-abatement plans before starting construction...
Texas Works has only two smokestacks, and these emit almost no smoke. The two giant 200-ton furnaces are fueled by a careful mixture of natural gas and air that is almost smokeless, and 25,000-h.p. fans blow the few exhaust fumes through a cooling water spray that removes all solid particles. The ultimate discharge from the stacks is made up of relatively equal parts of warm oxygen and carbon dioxide...
...Hawaii's Visitors Bureau, chambers of commerce and hoteliers, travel agents throughout the U.S. last week began receiving a brochure entitled Facts You Should Know to Appreciate Fully the ALOHA STATE! The purported facts: Hawaii's air, water and land are being seriously contaminated by auto exhaust, raw sewage and overuse of pesticides, and "the cost of living in Hawaii is at least 20% higher than on the mainland...