John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Water, Economics, Renewable Energy (Solar/Wind), Education,

Tidal power system will use an underwater kite to generate electricity

We've already heard about renewable energy systems that use aerial kites to generate electricity via the wind. Well, the Manta system is kind of similar, although it uses an underwater kite that "flies" in tidal or river currents.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Vegetables, Agriculture Global, Sustainability,

Soybean oil-coated sand could be a green alternative to plastic mulch

In order to keep water from evaporating from the soil, farmers will often cover the ground around their crop plants with sheets of polyethylene plastic. There could soon be a more eco-friendly alternative, though, in the form of soybean oil-coated sand.

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TOPIC(S): Beef Cattle, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Biotech,

09/16/2020 SOURCE: newatlas.com

CRISPR creates "surrogate sires" that produce prize-winning donor sperm

In a breakthrough that promises to revolutionize the precision breeding of animals, an international team of scientists led by Jon Oatley, a reproductive biologist with Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, has for the first time used the CRISPR gene editing tool to produce infertile animals that become "surrogate sires" and produce sperm containing only donor animal DNA

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Tidal power system will use an underwater kite to generate electricity

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