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Archive for the ‘agriculture’ Category:
2025-02-22 ‘Chaotic’ USDA Funding Freeze Stalls Rural Renewable Projects
The grantees of the US Department of Agriculture entered into a contract for grants to help pay for their renewable electricity projects. Now this funding freeze is withholding the money, in violation of their contracts. It looks like they should be hiring lawyers to take the US government to court and sue for the money
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2025-02-20 Greenfield Robotics Autonomous Farm Equipment
Greenfield Robotics makes autonomous farm 6equipment that eliminates most of the harmful herbicides and chemicals. https://www.facebook.com/greenfieldrobotics/videos/615527764469676/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-02-13 What If Mexico Cut Off Trade?
The US would be in a world of hurt. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1415952769223685?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-09-26 A Solution To Curbing Part Of Methane Emissions – Reducing Meat, Sustainable Diets
Quote “”Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.”” Quote “”Researchers at World Resources Institute say the average American can cut their environmental footprint in half by reducing their dairy and meat consumption, thus reducing their diet-related land use and greenhouse gas emissions.”” https://floodlightnews.org/dairy-digesters-presented-before-congress/?ref=im-a-reader-newsletter “”Sustainable diets what you need to know in 12 charts”” https://wri-indonesia.org/en/insights/sustainable-diets-what-you-need-know-12-charts?ref=floodlightnews.org
2024-08-19 Farmers Use Ducks Instead Of Insecticide
This is the way it should be – use natural methods of reducing insects instead of killing all the beneficial insects like bees.
2024-05-18 Sticky Insect Spray Kills Without Chemicals
We should get rid of all insecticides. Use a simple autonomous bug zapper that works around the clock. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/sticky-trick-new-glue-spray-kills-plant-pests-without-chemicals?utm_term=6648531fa6032e6372afbf52d4456d8a&utm_campaign=SaturdayEdition&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=saturdayedition_email
2023-11-15 HYDROGEN – You Wouldn’t Be Alive Without It!
I constantly see the armchair BEV (battery electric vehicle) ‘experts’ badmouth hydrogen FCEVs. The hydrogen is 3X less efficient than BEVs, they claim. But the ICEVs (internal combustion engine vehicles) they’re now driving are less efficient than the hydrogen FCEVs! So why are these hypocrites complaining? Hydrogen has been *safely* generated, stored and transported in
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2023-10-25 US Subsidies For Meat, Etc.
A quick Google search for “US meat subsidies” turned up this:$38B/year in meat and dairy subsidies, $17M/year for fruits and vegetables. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26872805:nIE https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26872805%3AnIEsjCg05Ef7QCY7oVPiSJ1IQR4&cuid=469956 —————————- Direct corn ethanol subsidies are lower, around $100M. But indirectly, the renewable portfolio standard forces fuel companies to subsidize ethanol by mandating it. https://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TCS-Biofuels-Subsidies-Report.pdf Perennial grass ethanol has not advanced as
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