Elivra a couple of years ago ....

 

Silver face:

https://www.kptv.com/police-man-huf...cle_d58db475-f9a6-548a-918c-ce1e9272e36b.html

Relative?

 

This could be interesting if it really pans out. (Having done agronomic research myself, I'm mildly skeptical.)

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/...hile-reducing-pesticides-and-fertilizers.html

 

This could be interesting if it really pans out. (Having done agronomic research myself, I'm mildly skeptical.)

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/...hile-reducing-pesticides-and-fertilizers.html

Very interesting ... it's probably generating ozone, and that somehow is helping the plants.

 

Very interesting ... it's probably generating ozone, and that somehow is helping the plants.

That's part of my skepticism. They could just be making nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen and not controlling for that with the experimental design. Of course it works, but commercially produced fertilizer would likely be more cost-effective. So this is all interesting but I'd want to see a lot more study and data before getting too excited about it. A 30% improvement in a crop study is nothing - unless you have huge amounts of data to show statistical significance.

 

That's part of my skepticism. They could just be making nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen and not controlling for that with the experimental design. Of course it works, but commercially produced fertilizer would likely be more cost-effective. So this is all interesting but I'd want to see a lot more study and data before getting too excited about it. A 30% improvement in a crop study is nothing - unless you have huge amounts of data to show statistical significance.

Right ... and electricity cost is another thing that I can't recall if the article addresses.

 

Right ... and electricity cost is another thing that I can't recall if the article addresses.

Well they did mention 15 kWh per day per hectare.

Here's a back-of-the-napkin.

A lot of people see an electricity cost of 10¢ per kWh. That equates to $1.50 per hectare day or about 61¢ per acre-day. Corn requires about 100 days to mature, so that's $61 per acre to apply electricity to the field for the season.

A really good corn crop is 170 bushels per acre. At $3.50/bu, that's a crop value of $595. So you'd need to increase the yield at least about 10% just to break even. This doesn't include getting a payback on your installation costs.

The economics should support application to high-value crops IF the yield increase is real and over-and-above current best practices. That's where my skepticism lies.

 

they did mention 15 kWh per day per hectare.

ooppss... I missed that detail ... those are pretty interesting numbers ... another thing that came to mind would be EMI problems, I wonder if that would be a serious issue

 

Just do it.

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1041706950147366914/video/1

 

Just do it.

Nah. Kaepernick would have been on his knees.

 

A really good corn crop is 170 bushels per acre. At $3.50/bu, that's a crop value of $595. So you'd need to increase the yield at least about 10% just to break even. This doesn't include getting a payback on your installation costs.

Tariffs will take care of it.

 

A really good corn crop is 170 bushels per acre.

I cannot figure out how many metric tons is it. Could you please

 

Tariffs will take care of it.

... and subsidies

 

I cannot figure out how many metric tons is it. Could you please

56 lbs per bushel, so 9,520 lbs = 4,318 kg per acre = 10.67 mt per hectare.

 

56 lbs per bushel, so 9,520 lbs = 4,318 kg per acre = 10.67 mt per hectare.

kg/acre ... there's a combination of units you don't see often ...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...eporting-on-san-francisco-bay-area-crime.html

"Inside Edition" said the man eventually left the speaker, and they later moved on to track the stolen purse, which was found in a garbage can.

While the crew was interviewing the man captured on camera in the initial theft, their actual crew car was broken into via the "smash and grab" method, leaving "thousands of dollars worth of equipment" stolen.

 

Michael Moore says he has a plan to escape potential persecution in the U.S.:
He's moving to Canada following the release of his latest politically charged documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 set to hit theaters Friday.
Max.

 

Michael Moore says he has a plan to escape potential persecution in the U.S.:
He's moving to Canada following the release of his latest politically charged documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 set to hit theaters Friday.
Max.

Sure

NSFW

Spoiler

 

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong...-jury-sent-away-decide-fate-professor-accused

A Malaysian professor was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for killing his wife and daughter using a gas-filled yoga ball as his murder weapon in a “premeditated and calculated” plot to get his hands on properties the couple jointly owned.
...
During the trial, Khaw never disputed taking the dangerous gas home in a yoga ball but claimed he planned only to use it on rats that were infesting his home.

 

Not 'Aliens'.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/fbi-new-mexico-observatory-mystery.html

After all, the observatory, deep within Lincoln National Forest, is just two hours from Roswell. The curious who attempted to visit the observatory came up against a guarded entrance taped off with crime-scene tape. And federal authorities did little to quell the speculation, remaining so silent on the matter that local law enforcement had no idea what was going on.

But now, the theorists have some fairly disappointing answers, if they’re willing to accept them. In newly released FBI records, including a search warrant affidavit, an agent explained she was investigating someone who had been using the observatory’s Wi-Fi to download and distribute child pornography.

The man under investigation was a janitor, who, according to the affidavit, was the only person who had access to the observatory during the time the laptop was downloading the pornography. The janitor has not yet been arrested or charged with a crime.