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Increasing Potato ProductionMadison WI (SPX) Jun 23, 2010 Despite sophisticated nutrient management of potato crops, quality and yield still see wide variability. Although nutrients are already well understood, the influence of other environmental factors remains understudied. A research team from Michigan State University conducted a study to determine how the chemical and physical properties of soil, along with the light waves the plant absorbs and reflects, affect potato yield and variability. These findings were integrated with known factors to ... read more |
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Dhaka (AFP) June 20, 2010Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by ar ... more  
Columbia, MD (SPX) Jun 22, 2010LPP Combustion, LLC, a Columbia, MD based innovator in liquid fuel technology, has successfully demonstrated the clean generation of green, dispatchable, renewable power on a 30kW Capstone C30 gas turbine. LPP Combustion has developed a Lean, Pre-mixed, Prevaporized (LPP) combustion technology that converts a wide variety of liquid fuels into a substitute natural gas called LPP Gas. Emissions fr ... more 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 22, 2010Scania is delivering 85 ethanol-powered buses to Nobina, which operates on behalf of the Stockholm regional public transport company, Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL). Ethanol buses will help SL fulfil its decision to invest only in buses that operate on renewable fuels starting in 2010. The order includes buses for city, suburban and regional traffic to be stationed at SL's depots in Bromm ... more |
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Turks cancel project to sell Israel waterTel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 18, 2010 Israel may be celebrating the discovery of giant offshore gas fields that are expected to transform its economy, but its hopes of overcoming its acute water problems have been set back by Turkey, its erstwhile ally. The Islamist government in Ankara has shelved plans to sell the Jewish state 1.75 billion cubic feet of water a year for 20 years from the Mavganat River in Anatolia, part of its wider strategy of restoring the regional dominance it had a century ago. The Turkish decision to ... read more |
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