Sentences with phrase «conventional methods yielded»

They also found significant human contamination immediately after a weekend jazz festival, whereas testing by conventional methods yielded a much weaker signal after a time lag of a couple days.

Not exact matches

Conventional methods, from pails to paperboard containers, involve a lot of handling and wasted / lost yield.

Cook & Hold ovens — a staple in casinos for more than 50 years — increase profit potential with higher protein yields compared to conventional cooking methods.

But, he added, in order to close the import - export gap, farmers need help making ends meet during the three transition years in which they must farm organically and often experience lower yields than under conventional methods, but do not yet qualify for the higher price premium of organic to compensate for their losses.

Conventional processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.

The results of a Purdue University study show that by using LED lights instead of the conventional high pressure sodium (HPS) lights for growing tomatoes in greenhouses, growers could get the same yields of fruit from the plants using just 25 % of the energy required with current methods.

However, because of the convenience and labor - saving methods of conventional agriculture, organic farming has taken a back seat since the technological breakthroughs that led to significant yields beginning in the 1940s, called the green revolution (not to be confused with today's «green» practices designed to minimize environmental impacts).

We used publicly available data from the United States Department of Agriculture to estimate yield differences between organic and conventional production methods for the 2014 production year.

They comment that the use of organically grown wheat does require 65 % more land area than conventional methods, but this is mainly because of the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides and the subsequent higher yields in the conventional system.

That report did not recommend pursuing wind or solar power; instead it looked at conventional pollution control methods which would have yielded the same environmental benefits as the GEA, but at a tenth of the current cost.