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To the untrained eye, Jeremy Gustafson’s 1,600-acre farm looks like all the others spread out across Iowa. Gazing at his conventional corn and soybean fields during a visit in June, I was hard-pressed to say where his neighbor’s tightly planted row crops ended and Gustafson’s began.
Agricultural research and development features prominently under “Clean Growth”, one of the four Grand Challenges of the government’s new “Industrial Strategy: building a Britain fit for the future”, announced today.
MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products.
Interest in using cover crops to improve soil health continues to grow in the Texas Rolling Plains region, but the nagging concern of reductions in soil moisture and effects on yields of subsequent cash crops still exists.
Lakes Environmental Research anunció, hace dos semanas, la emisión de la patente número 9,605,212 B2 por parte de la Oficina de Patentes de EEUU, que cubre un proceso revolucionario de recuperación de arenas petrolíferas. El "nuevo proceso de recuperación de arenas bituminosas con ‘ultra bajo’ contenido de agua " (NUWORP) reduce significativamente, con la posibilidad de eliminar, tres de las mayores barreras para una adopción más amplia de la producción de arenas petrolíferas, pues está diseñado para:
Actualmente, las vastas reservas de arenas petrolíferas en el oeste de Canadá tienen su mercado restringido debido al calentamiento global y a las preocupaciones del cambio climático asociadas con la alta intensidad actual de dióxido de carbono (CO2) asociado a la extracción de petróleo de arenas petrolíferas.
In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found a cryptic world in its own right.
