News tagged with farm system

New metal alloy electrode designed for plus-sized ions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing energy from wind farms and releasing that electricity on demand requires high-capacity, low-cost batteries; sodium-ion batteries could be part of the answer now, thanks to fundamental ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google invests $280 million to spur home solar

(AP) -- Google is investing $280 million to help private homeowners put solar panels on their rooftops. It's Google's latest - and largest - investment in clean energy.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Record efficiency of 18.7 percent for flexible CIGS solar cells on plastics

Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have further boosted the energy conversion efficiency of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

As food safety challenges pile up, technology strives to offer solution

Inside a Silicon Valley company's windowless vault, massive servers silently monitor millions of heads of lettuce, from the time they are plucked from the dirt to the moment the bagged salad is scanned at the grocery checkout ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New integrated building model may improve fish farming operations

Today's "locavore" movement with its emphasis on eating more locally-produced food is a natural fit for fruits and vegetables in nearly every region, but few entrepreneurs have dared to apply the concept to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find schooling fish offer new ideas for wind farming

The quest to derive energy from wind may soon be getting some help from California Institute of Technology fluid-dynamics expert John Dabiri -- and a school of fish.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New energy in search for future wind

Scientists are taking the first steps to improve estimates of long-term wind speed changes for the fast-growing wind energy sector, intended to reduce the risks for generators in a changing climate.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study investigates aquatic parasites on fish

Researchers in the Czech Republic, Spain and the United Kingdom have successfully identified the cellular components and mechanisms that play a role in the proliferation of myxozoa, tiny aquatic parasites ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Productive farms can be 'greener than organic': study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Farms that aim for high food production using environmentally-friendly practices could be better for the environment than both organic and conventional farms.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Japan plans floating wind farm near nuclear plant

Japan plans to build a floating wind farm near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as part of the country's disaster reconstruction effort, a government official said Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Live carp smuggled into Canada

Smugglers keep hauling live Asian carp from Southern fish farms bound for food markets in the Lake Ontario city of Toronto, even as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies how to keep the fish from swimming into the Great ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Idaho farmers growing vegetables with geothermal energy

Most people know about the geothermal system in Boise's Downtown and Warm Springs area. It's one of the oldest in the country.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Sustainability threatened by rising demand for livestock products

Global demand for meat, milk and eggs has tripled in the past four decades and is expected to double by 2050. Increased global livestock production has great impacts on the environment and increases global warming. A major ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lower occurrence of atopic dermatitis in children thanks to farm animals and cats

Children whose mothers are exposed to farm animals and cats are better protected against atopic dermatitis and are less likely to develop this painful inflammation of the skin in their first two years of life. A group of ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers work to take the errors out of the cloud

Cloud computing, which taps the resources of a network of remote computers, offers tremendous potential for storing and processing vast amounts of data quickly and cheaply. The catch: As cloud computing applications become ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0