News tagged with industrial hog farms
Tiny super-plant can clean up animal waste, be used for ethanol production
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a tiny aquatic plant can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and potentially be part of the answer for the global energy ...
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Process could improve economics of ethanol production
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University's Hans van Leeuwen has moved his research team's award-winning idea for improving ethanol production from a laboratory to a pilot plant.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 20, 2011 |
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Turning plants into power houses
(PhysOrg.com) -- "I have a slide that has a photo of a cornfield and a big photovoltaic array," says Robert Blankenship, a scientist who studies photosynthesis at Washington University in St. Louis. "When ...
May 12, 2011 |
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Is engineered 'Frankenfish' coming to the nation's table?
With a global population pressing against food supplies and vast areas of the ocean swept clean of fish, tiny AquaBounty Technologies Inc. of Waltham, Mass., says it can help feed the world.
Aug 18, 2010 |
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Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture
(AP) -- The mystery started the day farmer Russ Kremer got between a jealous boar and a sow in heat.
Dec 28, 2009 |
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This idea doesn't stink: New tech cuts industrial odors, pollutants
A North Carolina State University researcher has devised a new technology that really does not stink. In fact, it could be the key to eliminating foul odors and air pollutants emitted by industrial chicken rendering facilities ...
Aug 26, 2009 |
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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Excuse me! Lobby wins on burps
(AP) -- One contributor to global warming - bigger than coal mines, landfills and sewage treatment plants - is being left out of efforts by the Obama administration and House Democrats to limit greenhouse ...
Jun 20, 2009 |
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Humans are responsible for swine flu
Swine flu. Bird flu. Mad cow disease. SARS. These diseases have all spread from animals to humans in one form or another. But animals aren't to blame for outbreaks of animal-borne diseases -- humans are.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 01, 2009 |
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'Apollo Program' for hydrogen energy needed, researcher says in Science
What if all the vehicles now on the road in the United States were suddenly powered by hydrogen fuel cells? Stanford researchers say in a June 24 article in the journal Science that such a conversion would improve air qu ...
Jun 24, 2005 |
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