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...federal government has already implemented or proposed initiatives to reduce smog in American cities, going back as far as the Clean Air Act 17 years ago. In the mid-1970s, catalytic converters on automobiles became mandatory. The Environmental Protection Agency has further advocated the use of methanol-based gasoline consumption and vapor recovery systems on cars and filling station pumps...
...lines with those stocking up on vodka. Soviet officials are apparently attempting to shift the country's drinking habits away from vodka and toward less potent beverages. The marketing strategy is debatable. According to Soviet health officials, the antidrinking measures are driving alcoholics to substitute such dangerous substances as methanol and cheap cologne for vodka...
...calls the car for the "1990s and the beginning of the 21st century." The sleek sedan has a ceramic gas-turbine engine that is controlled by optical fibers rather than wiring. Nissan's Research Vehicle II, whose wheels, windshield and windows are all made of plastic, runs on methanol fuel that is stored in a plastic tank. The car's automatic cruise control measures the distance to the vehicle in front by radar and microwave, warns the driver if the car gets too close and decelerates if the person fails to slow down. The drowsiness monitor checks...
...March 31, 1981, there were 63 applications from a range of sponsors including energy companies, municipalities and utilities for federal support of synfuels projects, but the Administration whittled them back to only five. They are two coal-liquefication plants in Kentucky and Wyoming, a methanol conversion plant in North Carolina, a coal-gasification facility in Memphis and a heavy-oil upgrading project in California...
...ultimate fuel must be methol produced, from cellulose-containing waste products. Although the B.T.U. yield of methanol is only half that from gasoline, the eventual mass-production cost will be less than half the cost of gasoline...