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Greg K. Ingram, assistant professor of Economics, said that Congress should not promote the manufacture of the catalytic converter "simply because its the only technology now available to control car exhaust...
Ingram said that the catalytic converter, which eliminates many of the harmful substances from exhaust fumes before they are released into the air, may itself become a health hazard by emitting potentially dangerous sulfates into the environment...
INDUSTRIAL POWER. Because the potential for savings varies from plant to plant, there could be no hard guideline, but federal experts estimate that industry could reduce consumption by a minimum of 15%, saving as much as 300,000 bbl. a day. Example: exhaust heat from gas-fired turbines could be used instead of oil to process sulfur. Using coal instead of oil in power generators and factory boilers could save a further...
Feeling hemmed in by tradition, Partch added 31 tones to the twelve possible in the existing octave, then built entire orchestras out of cloud chambers, shell casings and auto exhaust pipes. With casually carpentered but poetically named instruments (the Boo, Whang Gun and Surrogate Kithara), Partch played compositions bearing such provocative titles as Visions Fill the Eyes of a Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room...
...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...