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Post by Ratty on Oct 13, 2018 23:21:53 GMT
Pictures? Nope. The rats ate them. I suppose it's all relative.
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Post by sigurdur on Oct 14, 2018 4:45:55 GMT
Well, mine are still in the field. A bit of snow has caused harvest to come to a standstill. Might be able to start harvest on Wednesday. WASDE report indicates that the world has record supplies again. Don't see a lot of price increase in the near future.
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 7, 2018 22:33:10 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 8, 2018 2:12:53 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Nov 8, 2018 6:14:49 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 10, 2018 19:42:27 GMT
Even if it gets colder..... " Mike Zelkind stands at one end of what was once a shipping container and opens the door to the future.
Thousands of young collard greens are growing vigorously under a glow of pink-purple lamps in a scene that seems to have come from a sci-fi movie, or at least a NASA experiment. But Zelkind is at the helm of an earthbound enterprise. He is chief executive of 80 Acres Farms, with a plant factory in an uptown Cincinnati neighborhood where warehouses sit cheek by jowl with detached houses.
Since plants emerged on Earth, they have relied on the light of the sun to feed and grow through the process of photosynthesis.
But Zelkind is part of a radical shift in agriculture — decades in the making — in which plants can be grown commercially without a single sunbeam. A number of technological advances have made this possible, but none more so than innovations in LED lighting.
“What is sunlight from a plant’s perspective?” Zelkind asks. “It’s a bunch of photons.”" www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/led-growing/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb311aafef8a
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 10, 2018 21:47:23 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 19, 2018 3:45:55 GMT
And another one.... "No tractors required! Britain's first 'vertical farm' is about to produce its first crop with the help of a robot named Frank working in a warehouse in Scun thorpe — and it could change agriculture forever
A 'vertical farm' in Scun thorpe has the potential to change agriculture forever Only four human beings work at the vast warehouse, bathed in eerie pink light It is designed to produce 500 tonnes of plants annually starting with fresh herbs A single robot — called Frank — is responsible for gathering trays of plants "www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6403635/Britains-vertical-farm-produce-crop-help-robot.htmlFrom experience of looking at screens that were overly green - the workers in this 'farm' will have vision issues everything will seem green when they leave work.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 24, 2018 22:37:07 GMT
Ya suppose they might be willing to bet their retirement checks on these forecasts?
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 25, 2018 4:56:28 GMT
I don't know what these folks are using as a basis for their projection. There are no climate models today that can do regional projections.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 4, 2018 9:31:27 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 4, 2018 9:56:24 GMT
I don't know what these folks are using as a basis for their projection. There are no climate models today that can do regional projections. And if there were, I'd see no compelling reason to believe them given the track record of their global cousins. Odds on better luck at the local pub dart board ... and better entertainment.
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2018 8:55:32 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Dec 5, 2018 9:02:33 GMT
The warming hole.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 5, 2018 10:13:13 GMT
How very strange. "At a Glance
Summers in the Midwest became cooler and rainfall increased during the second half of the 20th century.With increased crop production, more moisture is pumped into the atmosphere, which helps to cool temperatures and increase rainfall."But the CAGW hypothesis is that CO2 raises the atmospheric temperature and that causes a positive feedback by increasing more evaporation of water 'a more powerful greenhouse gas' and that leads to more heating and eventually the oceans boil..... Of course the hydrological cycle cools as it says in this article, first by removing heat as latent heat from the surface (all the transpiration of irrigation water by the plants) and by raising the humidity the enthalpy of the air rises and more energy is required to raise its temperature. I don't think that the authors of this paper realize that they have falsified the CAGW hypothesis ;-) which is strange.
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