Ever since graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, was created first in 2004,
which is relevant in manufacturing, agriculture and disaster areas.""It's not possible for a person to control a thousand
"In the future, farmers could send machines into their fields to inspect the crops, "said Georgia Tech Ph d. candidate Yancy Diaz-Mercado."
a layered form of carbon atoms constructed to resemble honeycomb, called graphene. Graphene was heralded globally as a wonder-material thanks to the work of two British scientists who won the Nobel prize for Physics for their research on it.
but rather of silicon nanopillars that are arranged precisely into a honeycomb pattern to create a"metasurface"that can control the paths and properties of passing light waves.
A honeycomb pattern is overlaid on the left image. Image: Dr. Amir Arbabi/Faraon Lab/Caltech) While the same goal can be achieved using an arrangement of multiple conventional optical components such as glass lenses, prisms, spatial light modulators, polarizers,
(which makes water unusable for crops and for drinking), the team also applied UV LIGHT to disinfect some of the water as it passed through the system.
the system could provide enough water to irrigate a small farm m
#Putting Sensors In Bridges And Tunnels Could Make Their Walls Talk Trying to get a building to tell you how it feeling is,
But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
even those who grow crops with relatively low water needs like wine grapes are feeling the pinch.
Cropx, Phytech, Open Garden, Smart Irrigation Controllersauthor: Ted Burnha r
#Eco-friendly 3d printed supercar Kevin Czinger of Divergent Microfactories has spent most of his career in the automotive industry.
but alone they won't be enough to curb greenhouse emissions given the projected rise in demand for cars globally
and they formed a tight honeycomb pattern, covering an area of 5 x 5 mm.
but also their arrangement in the honeycomb structure, so they can investigate the possibility of new states of matter."
which is in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
the Virginia Tech team used dirty biomass--the husks and stalks of corn plants--to create their fuel.
"In natural photosynthesis, leaves harvest solar energy and carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of molecular products that form biomass,
"In our system, nanowires harvest solar energy and deliver electrons to bacteria, where carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of a variety of targeted, value-added chemical products."
"We may also apply this to agriculture for predicting crop yield, drought condition, or insect outbreak."
a new material that can improve soil properties and increase crop yields. The results of the research group of Valuation of resources from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid suggest an optimal solution to manage the manure from chicken and cattle.
is an organic fertilizer that applied in soils and not only has positive effects on crop yields, but also represents a significant reduction of CO2 EMISSIONS compared to the direct application of manure waste on soils.
Waste production either from urban, industrial or agricultural source, is a major environmental problem in our society.
and Mining engineering and Agricultural production of UPM shows that the biochar produced from manure of cattle,
pigs and chicken is an organic fertilizer with a high content of nutrients, stabilized organic material and high values of cation exchange capacity.
These results give evidence of the positive effects of using biochar as a fertilizer on soils for better crop yields.
the results show that the pyrolysis of manure waste has other additional environmental benefits such as reduced soil nutrient leaching and less waste volume, removal of odor and pathogens of the original material.
the leading producer of white maize in the country but the hot and humid climate favors the proliferation of all kinds of pests.
"If 22 million tons of maize are produced in Mexico, we are talking about 88 million pills;
and irrigation for agriculture to the prevention of icing and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces,
Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
The researchers used a highly advanced technique to place 1 billion of these tiny grains on a flat substrate to form a large-scale honeycomb pattern.
which could have applications such as spraying on crops or disinfecting food, as well as treating human disease.
In the plastic disk, the innards of each sector are patterned with a honeycomb-shaped structure in
leaves harvest solar energy and carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of molecular products that form biomass,
nanowires harvest solar energy and deliver electrons to bacteria, where carbon dioxide is reduced and combined with water for the synthesis of a variety of targeted, value-added chemical products.
and is a $6 billion crop in the United states. here is untapped a vast reservoir of genes in wild cotton plants that could offer us stronger
Borage family flowers (Echium angustifolium) as seen in human vision (left) and honeybee vision (right. To humans the flowers are a fairly uniform purple,
The researchers have provided specific data on camera settings for commonly studied animals, such as humans, blue tits, peafowl, honey bees, ferrets and some fish.
Instead, silicon nanopillars are arranged precisely into a honeycomb pattern to create a etasurfacethat can control the paths and properties of passing light waves.
based in Foothill Ranch, California, said in early August that it has succeeded in keeping a high-energy plasma stable for five millisecondsuch less than the blink of an eye,
which resembles a crushed honeycomb. The shoes are the first illustration of a new method of weaving in three dimensions created by Nigerian American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya.
August 1, 2015-The Monsanto patent on Roundup Ready Soybeans has expired after 20 years. That means farmers can now legally collect the seeds from their plantings
#Weather history time machine created During the 1930s North america endured the Dust bowl a prolonged era of dryness that withered crops
flows in agriculture A quantitative model for measuring sustainability in the Finnish agricultural sector has been developed in a new thesis. The new model challenges the OECD method which is used currently
Improvements for OECD nutrient balance modelcurrently the static nutrient balance approach of OECD is used to assess nutrient emissions from agriculture.
The stocks and outflows from the stock calculated using the dynamic model could be utilized in sustainability assessment as indicators of environmental pressure from agriculture.
Our dynamic approach would provide better estimations of the nutrient leaching from agriculture to environment than the conventional method of OECD. Story Source:
#An innovative way to increase flower, seed and fruit production A scientist from UPM has developed a method to enhance crop yield by the contact of roots aerial parts or even the substratum of the plant fungus'Colletotrichum tofieldiae'.
Within the agriculture sector the Colletotrichum fungi are well known because they have a large amount of crop pathogen.
However this species has other subspecies that does not harm their host plants and they actually have many benefits.
This method can help increase crop yields its application is similar to use a fertilizer but having better results
Thus its application in agriculture horticulture forestry plants ornamental plants or any other plant with commercial interest would represent a significant environmental and economic saving.
The biochar has a one-two punch in that it can be used to both increase crop yields
#Horticulture: Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitability Wireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators.
Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have made it possible for greenhouse growers to use water content sensors to accurately determine irrigation timing and application rates in soilless substrates.
The wireless sensor systems provide more accurate measurements of substrate moisture than qualitative methods and can save irrigation water labor energy and fertilizer.
The authors of a report published in Horttechnology said that the use of sensor-based irrigation technology can also accelerate container and greenhouse plant production time.
The scientists found that controlling irrigation using data from moisture sensors led to substantial reductions in both production time and crop losses.
"Human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management and industrial processes are increasing the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
such as the ranches in New mexico where she tested her system at full scale, poor access to water pipelines often leads to a heavy reliance on well water.
But some ranchers find that even their livestock won tolerate the saltiness of this water. t useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are
Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology And circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it,
#Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the masses BUENOS AIRES--The new Trakür agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,
for its Spanish initials) to promote automation in Argentine greenhouse agrobusiness. Designed to apply pesticides in greenhouses,
the Trakür is meant to increase production of vegetables and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals."
"When one applies these chemicals in a confined environment like a greenhouse, one likelihood of intoxication increases notably,
In an economy as heavily dependent on agriculture as Argentina's, boosting production and protecting workers are vitally important.
Designed for small farmers who, because of Argentina's regular economic collapses, are not eager or able to make large investments,
Thus, the Trakür could make farm automation possible not only for small farmers in Argentina but also for those in developing countries around the globe.
Greenhouse robots are generally small wheeled vehicles that carry a tank of pesticide, a sprayer to distribute the liquid,
and the amount of remaining chemical to a computer outside the greenhouse, where an operator directs the Trakür virtually.
#Where the bio-rubber meets the road My posts about biotechnology as it relates to agriculture tend to draw impassioned naysayers,
which is selling technology that its founder first put to the test in Turkish greenhouses,
is piloting an environmental monitoring system that helps agribusiness concerns be smarter about how much water they use.
-or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field. These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected,
Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients. The solution was developed by Bulut Ersavas, a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
such as the nature of the soil, the nature of the crop involved or weather. The system is currently being tested at Norcal Harvesting,
since about 2005 in hundred of installations in Turkey focused on growing greenhouse tomatoes. Those systems were sold by Climateminder's predecessor corporation,
vice president of business development for Climateminder, said the company will target its technology at farms in prime California agribusiness districts such as Oxnard, Salinas and Watsonville.
But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road, it starts breaking down like a seed husk within three months to a year.
You really have to put them in your garden, in the environment for them to start biodegrading.
Elevated radiation levels widespread in eastern Japan Test show Japanese child exposed to radiation Rice crops threatened by radiation Radioactive tuna found in Pacific ocean Hydrofracking drives new water treatment solutions
via the first crop of Homekit-enabled accessories from third-party manufacturers. This means youl soon be able to get your hands on a range of products for the connected home that work with Siri on your ios device,
and this crop of initial partners delivers that. It interesting to see Apple announce this ahead of WWDC
the readings it takes are more scientifically rigorous than those achieved by the current crop of Android Wear-powered devices,
Researchers have completed the second of three major steps needed to turbocharge photosynthesis in crops such as wheat
Researchers at Cornell University and Rothamsted Research in the United kingdom successfully transplanted genes from a type of bacteria-called cyanobacteria-into tobacco plants
But 75 percent of the world's crops (known as C3 plants) use a slower and less efficient form of photosynthesis. Researchers have been attempting for a long time to change some C3 plants-including wheat rice and potatoes-into C4 plants.
However Price says there are genetic workarounds that could quickly make it possible in a wider range of crops s
#How LEDS Are Set to Revolutionize Hi-tech Greenhouse Farming It won't come as a surprise to discover that consumers all over the developed world are increasingly demanding seasonal vegetables all year round even
Which is why greenhouse farming has become a major factor in the food supply of the developed world.
Consequently the number of commercial greenhouses and the area they occupy is rocketing. In The netherlands for example greenhouses occupy around 0. 25 percent of the land area of the entire country.
And The netherlands isn t even the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in Europe. That position is held by Spain.
And the largest producer of greenhouse vegetables in the world is now China. This kind of farming has a significant impact on the environment.
Commercial greenhouses have to be lit and heated in a way that optimizes growth. And up to 35 percent of the cost of greenhouse tomatoes comes from this heating and lighting.
So an important question is how to minimize the energy it takes to grow these crops.
One obvious answer is to convert greenhouses from the traditional incandescent lighting usually high pressure sodium lamps to more energy-efficient LEDS.
That might seem like an economic no-brainer but the industry has been slow to make this change because of the high initial cost of LEDS.
The question that farmers have pondered over is whether they will ever recoup the upfront cost of a brand-new system of lighting.
These guys have compared the life-cycle costs of traditional high pressure sodium lamps against those of LEDS for greenhouse lighting.
For the moment the strategy for greenhouse farmers seems clear: convert to LED lighting as quickly as possible.
Greenhouses allow for a wider variety of fruit and vegetable for a given climate. LEDS give farmers greater flexibility at a lower cost and a smaller environmental footprint.
Micha Benoliel CEO and cofounder of startup Open Garden which made Firechat says the app shows how smartphones can be set free from cellular networks.
However Open Garden s forthcoming software will extend the feature so that data can hop between two iphones out of range of one another via intermediary devices.
For example messages sent using Firechat to nearby devices don t pass through any systems operated by either Open Garden
Open Garden s main product is an app that allows Android devices to share their Internet connections (see Could You Spare Some Internet access?.
normally a small transparent plate resembling a honeycomb with 96 tiny wells. Specific antibodies are placed then into each well,
ELISA testing is performed usually with little honeycomb shaped plates that have 96 tiny wells embedded in them.
We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications,
a single layer of carbon atoms is arranged in the form of a honeycomb structure. Its highly versatile nature makes it applicable for use in numerous electronics gadgets such as wearables, flexible displays and other sophisticated electronic devices."
#Saturas Successfully Conducts Field trials of Embedded Stem Water Sensor The field tests were conducted on peach and citrus trees at the Hula Valley Orchards Experimental Farm.
Today most farmers typically overwater crops by up to 20%just to be on the safe side.
Optimal irrigation can improve quality and quantity of crops and increase farmers incomes and profitability.
SWP is recognized a scientifically highly accurate parameter for determining water status in crops but today SWP can only be measured in a labor-intensive procedure.
The Saturas sensor provides accurate information for optimized irrigation to reduce water consumption with no stress to the plants and increases fruit production and quality.
The Saturas sensing system tailors irrigation to the crop's real-time water needs resulting in more efficient water use
#New MIT Power Converter Chip Harvests More than 80%of Energy Realizing that vision, however, will require extremely low-power sensors that can run for months without battery changes or, even better,
Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology And circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it,
The information companies harvest can become new products that they sell or can be combined with how they market other new products.
but it requires a poppy harvest to manufacture. Brewed morphine could, eventually, be easier to produce.
and hoped in time it would improve his vision sufficiently to help him with day-to-day tasks like gardening and shopping.
and although I was a keen gardener, I can't tell the weeds from the flowers anymore."
said Warren Ruder, an assistant professor of biological systems engineering in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering."
In agriculture, bacteria-robot model systems could enable robust studies that explore the interactions between soil bacteria and livestock.
Traditional ELISA testing is performed with small transparent plates that resemble honeycombs, typically with 96 tiny wells. Samples are placed in the wells first,
#Biodiesel production from Sugarcane A multi-institutional team led by plant biology professor Stephen P. Long from the University of Illinois reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent
and turn it into an oil-producing crop for biodiesel production. These are the first steps in a bigger initiative that will turn sugarcane
and sorghum two of the most productive crop plants known into even more productive oil-generating plants.
The team presented its latest findings to the U s. Department of energy's ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington D c. in February this year.
But soybean isnt productive enough to meet the nations need for renewable diesel fuels Long said.
and mustard) and later with sugarcane the team introduced genes that boost natural oil production in the plant.
They increased oil production in sugarcane stems to about 1. 5 percent. The team hopes to increase the oil content of sugarcane stems to about 20 percent he said.
Using genetic engineering the researchers increased photosynthetic efficiency in sugarcane and sorghum by 30 percent Long said.
And to boost cold tolerance researchers are crossing sugarcane with Miscanthus a related perennial grass that can grow as far north as Canada.
The new hybrid is more cold-tolerant than sugarcane but further crosses are needed to restore the other attributes of sugarcane
while preserving its cold-tolerance Long said. Ultimately the team hopes to integrate all of these new attributes into sugarcane he said.
The research team led by the University of Illinois includes scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory the University of Florida and the University of Nebraska.
Long is an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois s
Oilseed crops commercialized by Agrisoma were used as a feedstock and transformed by Applied Research Associates into a complete replacement fuel for conventional jet fuel.
many of the crops grown in the valley are high-value products that are lucrative,
and the region conservative bent leads farmers and ranchers to stick to the crops, trees, and animals they know.
and then recycled so local farmers can use it to water their crops. The by-product that remains at the end of the process,
and agriculture--for controlled delivery and release but this is one of the first demonstrations of this approach for controlled capture says Jennifer A. Lewis the Hansj rg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard School of engineering
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
others argue they are a threat to bird life and a noisy blight on the landscape.
#Nemo's Garden project is growing strawberries, beans, lettuce and herbs underwater They wouldn look out of place in a sci-fi film,
The farm, named Nemo Garden has been installed in the Bay of Noli, in Savona, Italy. he main target of this project is to create alternative sources of plant production in areas where environmental conditions make it extremely difficult to grow crops through conventional farming,
including lack of fresh water, fertile soils, and extreme temperature changes, said a spokesman for the project. e are trying to find an alternative and economically viable technology enabling efficient production.
A control centre on dry land allows the scientists to monitor the status of crops without having to dive down every day to tend to them. e have installed many webcams
efore when I was looking at a plant in the garden it was like a honeycomb in the centre of my eye.
I can now walk round the garden and see things. is system was turned on for the first time on July 1,
the Harvester, a machine that, in six to 24 hours, turns food matter into a high-nutrient liquid that can be converted to organic fertilizer.
#Flexible nanogenerator harvests muscle movement to power mobile devices The consumer world is becoming powered by mobile devices,
by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).
Elastic buckling honeycomb structures. Known officially as negative-stiffness honeycombs, these hexagonal cell structures are named
so because they are able to provide continued support from repeat impact events. Current traditional honeycomb structures can support an individual only once before breaking down
and deforming permanently due to plastic buckling. Elastic buckling honeycomb structures provide the materials needed so that a given item could stretch
or bend and protect a victim or item when necessary, but return to its normal shape afterward without any inward breakdown of its parts.
who first dabbled into cloaking before he stumbled upon negative stiffness honeycombs last year. In fact, Leiden University Phd student Bastiaan Florijn created a sponge-like object as a prop for the concept at the American Physical Society March Meeting,
#Farmlogs Is Now Able To Alert Farmers About Crop Threats Farm management software company Farmlogs is used by over 20%of the farms in the U s. with over $15 billion in crops under management.
Now Farmlogs has launched the only crop health monitoring service in the industry that can pinpoint the exact location in the part of the field that needs attention.
Farmlogs monitors crop health by utilizing multi-spectral satellite imagery to build performance baselines from over five years of field-specific crop health data.
The crop health is tracked throughout the season against the performance baseline to detect subtle cues
The crop health monitoring imagery utilized by Farmlogs shows information that is actionable and eliminates guesswork
As a gift to its users, Farmlogs is offering the crop monitoring feature for free this year.
because the agriculture technology (gtech space is thriving. For example, Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation for nearly $1 billion in 2013.
And agriculture technology companies received $2. 36 billion of investments across 264 deals last year alone
so it kills only those bugs that threaten crops and avoids collateral damage to beneficial insects.
whether an RNA-insecticide spray would be stable enough to use in agriculture. They matched double-stranded (ds) RNA to an actin gene in the Colorado potato beetle
Crop protection RNA, ribonucleic acid, is present in all living cells. Mainly, it acts as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA for controlling the synthesis of proteins.
The idea for crop protection was born out of this technology. As part of the study, Scott and Keri San miguel put a film of ds RNA on plate glass
including long haul transportation and trucking, agriculture (tractors), mining and off-road vehicles, motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others.
#"Nemo's Garden"grows terrestrial crops underwater The stand for the region of Liguria at the Milan 2015 Expo features a project as bizarre-sounding as it is intriguing:
an attempt to grow crops underwater, inside air-filled biospheres. It's part of an effort that could prove a low-cost,
lack of fertile land and adverse climate conditions around the world means we've seen several projects involving growing crops creatively,
including underground, inside a skyscraper, in a tiny greenhouse and even in the cloud, to try and deal with the issue.
and the crops are well out of the reach of parasites. The evaporating sea water condenses on the inner walls of the biosphere,
creating a high-humidity environment (up to 85 percent) that favors crop growth. All in all according to its proponents, the system is sustainable
The Nemo's Garden project started in 2012 and continued through the next two summers. The three (now five) underwater biospheres were anchored to the seafloor
Live streaming for the underwater garden project is available via Ustream, 24/7. Four cameras will monitor the stretch of sea containing the garden and the inside of the biggest biosphere.
Each week will also see a live underwater broadcast to describe the latest progress. The video below further illustrates the project.
Nemo's Garden via New Scientis e
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