Sentences with phrase «turning crop wastes»

Turning crop wastes and other biomass into charcoal and spreading it on tropical soils can sequester carbon and boost crop productivity

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SFC found that when the animals are fed healthy, manufactured feeds, they produce highly nutritive waste, which is then turned into compost and used as fertilizer for the crops.

We've made this delicious chutney with ripe tomatoes, but if the weather's not been kind and you're left with a crop of green tomatoes at the end of summer, why not use them instead and turn this recipe into a green tomato chutney, instead of letting the fruits go to waste?

Chemical engineer Charles Wyman of the University of California, Riverside, argues for biorefineries turning seed oil, the stalks and other detritus of crop plants, and even wood pulp waste into an assortment of alternative fuels.

Researchers continue to struggle to develop «second generation» biofuels that they hope will use enzymes to turn cellulose from wood and crop waste into ethanol.

The good news is that it can be done with existing technology, by cutting energy waste, expanding the use of renewable sources, growing trees and crops (which remove carbon dioxide from the air) to turn into fuel, capturing the gas before it is released from power stations, and - maybe - using more nuclear energy.

I, for one, have always been against turning food crops into biofuel right from the get - go, tho I've always thought ag wastes make good candidates, such as manure, which otherwise pollutes localities near industrial livestock farms.

Many of the solutions being developed involve cutting - edge technology that could turn human waste into fuel to power local communities, fertilizer to improve crops, or even safe drinking water.