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Greenhouse Watering System
Building Your Own Mini-Greenhouse Can Be A Fun And Educational Experience, As Well As A Rewarding One. Especially If You’re Good With Tools. If You Are Using A Greenhouse To Initiate Transplants Or Grow Plants To Maturity, The Greenhouse Should Be Located In An Area That Will Receive The Most Sunlight. It Should Also Be Located In A Well-Ventilated Area. Avoid Building Greenhouses In ...
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CHP Greenhouses Make Growing Even Greener
Bearing little resemblance to a typical farm, modern large greenhouses are, in reality, complex, high-tech factories that produce food and other crops. A natural gas Cat® or MWM™ generator set produces electrical power for the greenhouse needs, and any excess electricity can be sold to the utility company and fed back to the grid. The extra heat from the engine is collected to keep the ...
By Caterpillar
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Growing cucumber and sweet pepper in water efficient zero emission greenhouse
Regulations to reduce the emission of nutrients and pesticides force the horticultural industry to adopt a new approach to water management. Is a zero-emission greenhouse feasible? Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture is currently testing the zero emission greenhouse. In this zero emission greenhouse all drain water is re-used. In the reference greenhouse occasional discharge takes place in ...
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Using ventilated latent heat converters to reduce botrytis pressure
Controlling the humidity insfcle a controled environment e one of the most discussed concerns amongst greenhouse growers. A solution that is more often notic ed by growers are the so c aled VentJated Latent Heat Converters (VLHC); These units extract humid air from inside the greenhouse and convert water vapour into water and heat by blowing the air through a matrix of desiccant-filled elements ...
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Seeing is believing as scientists trace greenhouse effect
Government scientists in the US say they have directly observed for the first time the greenhouse effect in action, while monitoring the way carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere absorbed increasing amounts of thermal radiation from the surface. Their measurements, taken over a period of 11 years in Alaska and Oklahoma, confirm predictions made more than 100 years ago, and repeatedly ...
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Optimal substrate moisture content determined for high-quality bedding plants
The bedding plants sold in retail outlets are typically grown in greenhouse production environments where professionals can monitor irrigation, light, and temperature. When the greenhouse-grown plants reach the retail market, however, they are often subjected to a range of less-than-ideal light levels, temperatures, and irrigation schedules that can be detrimental to plant quality and vigor. ...
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Seawater greenhouse plan for Jordan
Seawater greenhouses, solar power plants and other new green technologies will be brought together in Jordan in an attempt to turn its desert into a producer of crops, fresh water and electricity. The governments of Jordan and Norway signed an agreement last month (11 January) to build a 20-hectare demonstration centre near Aqaba on the Red Sea. They will work with the Aqaba Special Economic ...
By SciDev.Net
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Potatoes more environmentally sustainable than pasta, rice
International researchers have shown that potatoes are good for the environment, with a recently published paper indicating that potato production is more environmentally sustainable than pasta and rice. The paper, conducted by researchers from Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, England and published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, considered both greenhouse gas emissions and water ...
By AUSVEG
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Ozone technology for greenhouse water treatment
Originally Pubished on Hortidaily: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9067358/proper-greenhouse-water-recycling-is-the-key-to-increasing-your-profitability/ “Proper greenhouse water recycling is the key to increasing your profitability, year after year. Without adequate control of your nutrient feed solution, the entire process of fertigation can prove harmful for your crop’s steady ...
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PureBlue Water participates in project: `Microbial free water for greenhouse horticulture”
PureBlue Water is happy to give a glance behind the scenes! In collaboration with Wageningen University & Research within the business unit Greenhouse Horticulture & Flower Bulbs and the KWR (Watercycle Research Institute), PureBlue Water participates with four other partners in a two-year research project: "Microbial free water for greenhouse horticulture". This project is designed to ...
By PureBlue
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