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Post by account_disabled on Dec 25, 2023 3:07:51 GMT
Agricultural companies are asked to thread a difficult needle feed a fastgrowing population but without polluting pesticides or fertiliser runoff while lowering energy costs using less land and constantly increasing crop yields in an increasingly unpredictable warming world. Many researchers at the vanguard of the new wave of electrical agriculture think it can play a role in improving each of those aspects of food production. Using cubes of hydrogel and small doses of electricity Maddalena Salvalaio is hoping to encourage plants to develop roots that grow sideways Credit Maddalena Salvalaio Mobile App Development Service Using cubes of hydrogel and small doses of electricity Maddalena Salvalaio is hoping to encourage plants to develop roots that grow sideways Credit Maddalena Salvalaio Electrifying yield To increase yield some of the scientists are returning to inventions inspired by the electrovegetometer invented by a French physicist in the s. A kind of lightning rod that delivered atmospheric electricity to crops often with lessthandesirable consequences. A more advanced version can be found in Beijing where researchers have set up a rig that resembles the original device to infuse their plants with electricity.they reported excellent results notably on green beans in . In the US a number of institutions are trying to resurrect a different approach artificial lightning.
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