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India's rice revolution: Chinese scientist questions claim of massive harvests
2013-02-23 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: China's leading rice scientist has questioned India's claims of a world record harvest, following a report in last week's Observer of astonishing yields achieved by farmers growing the crop in the state of Bihar. Professor Yuan Longping, known as the "father of rice", said he doubted whether the Indian government had properly verified young Indian farmer Sumant Kumar's claim that he had produced 22.4 tonnes of rice from one hectare of land in Bihar in 2011. Yuan, director-general of China's...
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Local farm family harvests national attention
2013-01-24 19:53:41| Agriculture - Topix.net
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MIT bio-inspired microactuator harvests energy from water vapor
2013-01-17 20:07:39| Extremetech
A sponge absorbing water from the air does not at first appear to be a promising powerplant for a microactuator, let alone one that could rival the speed and power of our own muscle. A research group at MIT has recently built a polymer actuator that runs off of water vapor alone, yet has the performance of actuators that are powered by more energetic sources like heat or light.