Tag: Purdue University
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Purdue agrivoltaic farming systems harvest solar power without impacting crops
Purdue University researchers have improved upon traditional solar energy structures used in agrivoltaic farming, a sustainable system that generates electricity from the sun while row crops like corn, rice, soybeans and wheat concurrently grow on the same land. The patent-pending Purdue structures and software optimize food production for farmers and maximize solar energy production. Research……
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Purdue and Cornell Researchers Reveal Up to 1,000 Times More Methane Emissions Than Estimated
Because natural gas has less carbon than dirty coal, gas producers and even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have applauded it as a cleaner alternative. Hopefully, a joint study from researchers at two universities will change that. Purdue and Cornell universities on Monday released a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
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Study: Environmental Policies Matter for Growing Megacities
A new study shows clean-air regulations have dramatically reduced acid rain in the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea over the past 30 years, but the opposite is true in fast-growing East Asian megacities, possibly due to lax antipollution rules or lack of enforcement.
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Cellulosic Biofuel Gets Better, But There’s A But
A process that yields energy-dense biofuel from cellulose is reportedly close to being economical, if you use fossil fuels to help make it. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling.