Tag: News
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Harvest Power Mobile App Upgraded for the Growing Season
Harvest Power, focused on maximizing the value of organic materials, has upgraded its Harvest Landscape Calculator, a mobile app for gardeners and landscapers. The free app, now available on Android devices in addition to iPhones and iPads, features an enhanced user interface that makes it even easier to determine how much soil, mulch or stone…
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Mountain Pine Beetle Genome Decoded
This is a first for the mountain pine beetle and only the second beetle genome ever sequenced. The first was the red flour beetle, a pest of stored grains. The genome is described in a study published today in the journal Genome Biology.
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New Solar Structure Cools Buildings in Full Sunlight
A team of researchers at Stanford has designed an entirely new form of cooling structure that cools even when the sun is shining. Such a structure could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structures by reflecting sunlight back into the chilly vacuum of space. Their paper describing the device was published…
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Wastewater Management Problems Discovered in Oklahoma: Study Reports Wastewater Injection Spurred Biggest Earthquake
Wastewater injection is not the only way that people can touch off quakes. Evidence suggests that geothermal drilling, impoundment of water behind dams, enhanced oil recovery, solution salt mining and rock quarrying also can trigger seismic events.
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Solar America Continues Mexico Expansion with New Strategic Alliance
“Our strategic alliance with SolarMex gives us the ability to capitalize on the existing infrastructure and relationships built by SolarMex and its principals as we work to acquire additional projects in Mexico,” stated Robert Bludorn, CEO of Solar America. “I have been very impressed by product and market intelligence of SolarMex’s principals as we discussed…