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Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 20:14:14 GMT 9
The secret sauce in this bold new approach is the electrodes that flank either side of each cube. Salvalaio and Senas experiment is one of a growing global constellation of projects that aim to boost agriculture using a variety of electrical interventions. The last decade or two have seen a proliferation of ways to electrically stimulate seeds crops and fields increasing yield under the influence of an electric field shocking seeds to hasten germination even zapping the water they are doused with. In the US the National Science Foundation NSF has given millions of dollars to research the agricultural uses of cold plasma essentially controlled Mobile App Development Service lightning delivered at room temperature. In China the government is backing agricultural projects that use giant rigs to draw electricity into the soil to boost crop yields. In Canada a commercial grower has been experimenting its lettuces. Now startups are entering the scene like Vivent a Swiss company whose EEG can eavesdrop on plants inner electrical lives and is being aggressively courted by the ag industry. Even the organic gardening influencer community is sniffing around the trend. The proliferation of new projects would look very familiar to the practitioners of a strange th Century obsession electroculture in which electricity was liberally applied to plants to make them.
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