Word: hydrocarbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coal" to us is not merely a solidified hydrocarbon that exists in abundance in the United States, nor is it a simple coefficient in a mathematical model. "Coal" is in fact a system that involves, among other things, labor-management strife, uncertain environmental effects, and doubts posed by those who make investment decisions for utilities...
...Coal" to us is not merely a solidified hydrocarbon that exists in abundance in the United States, nor is it a simple coefficient in a mathematical model. "Coal" is in fact a system that involves, among other things, labor-management strife, uncertain environmental effects, and doubts posed by those who make investment decisions for utilities...
...pipeline project would have sharply reduced the problems, but California's superardent environmental officials yelped that it would befoul Long Beach harbor with oil spills and seriously worsen the local smog problem, because merely unloading the oil would release hydrocarbon fumes into the atmosphere. Among other requirements. Sohio had to agree to achieve a net reduction in air pollution by paying $78 million to install antipollution gear at a Long Beach utility plant...
...Diesel engines, of course, have powered trucks, locomotives and buses in the U.S. for decades. But their use in cars is a relatively recent phenomenon. Patented in the 1890s by Rudolf Diesel, a brilliant German engineer who died in 1913, the engine, in its various types, burns almost any hydrocarbon: alcohol blends, benzene, kerosene, even lightweight heating oil. Rudolf Diesel himself fueled an early experimental model with powdered coal. Another advantage: diesels do away with the gasoline engine's frequently troublesome spark ignition system. Diesel fuel is injected into the cylinders and made to explode by compression...
...territory in the Midwest through a 200-mile pipeline to be built across southern California and existing natural gas lines running through Texas. But unloading at Long Beach, protests Chairman A. Thomas Quinn of California's powerful air resources board, could daily release more than 50 tons of hydrocarbon vapors into the air and "severely aggravate" pollution in the Los Angeles area...