There's been a lot of discussion about hemp recently, since the 2018 Farm Bill made it legal for farmers to grow industrial hemp for the first time since the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (or, practically ...
Plants & Animals
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Vegans and vegetarians have long argued their approach to eating is the kindest—to animals and to our planet.
Ecology
Feb 15, 2023
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Cellular agriculture—the production of meat from cells grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from farm animals—is taking leaps in technology that are making it a more viable option for the food industry. One such ...
Biotechnology
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(Phys.org) —Officials at Germany's Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg, (ZSW) have issued a press release describing improvements they've made to lithium-ion batteries. They claim their improvements ...
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 crisis. Their research ...
Biochemistry
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Walney wind farm on the Irish Sea--characterized by high tides, waves and windy weather--officially opened this week. The farm is treated in the press as a very big deal as the Walney farm is presently ...
When a power company wants to build a new wind farm, it generally hires a consultant to make wind speed measurements at the proposed site for eight to 12 months. Those measurements are correlated with historical data and ...
Energy & Green Tech
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(AP) -- The manager of most of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest is running such a surplus of power from hydroelectric dams that it put wind farms on notice Friday that they may be shut down as early as this weekend.
Energy & Green Tech
May 14, 2011
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California now gets about 5 percent of its electricity from wind power, according to data released Tuesday by the California Wind Energy Association.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 7, 2012
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The British government gave the green light Tuesday for what it called the world's biggest offshore wind farm to be built off the English coast.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 16, 2016
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