The variety is resistant to a devastating banana disease for which there is currently no treatment or cure. Plus, RNA-editing therapies pick up steam and just 5 women have won a top maths prize in the past 90 years. The variety is resistant to a devastating banana disease for which there is currently no treatment or cure. Plus, RNA-editing therapies pick up steam and just 5 women have won a top maths prize in the past 90 years.
In the French countryside, energy companies are rushing to set up solar farms, with the risk of marginalizing agriculture. Researchers are finding solutions. In the French countryside, energy companies are rushing to set up solar farms, with the risk of marginalizing agriculture. Researchers are finding solutions.
The dream of agrivoltaics is to generate your electricity and eat your edamame too. But a recent study in Agroforestry Systems shows that agrivoltaics growing food beneath solar panels is not so simple. Research published in September finds that overall crop yields decrease when paired with solar panels and offers a way to […]
One of the key advantages of agrivoltaics is that it prevents land usage conflicts with agriculture by increasing solar power production using ground mounted PV systems. This can be seen in many European countries.
Excess river water reduces Swiss hydropower capacity Published on Share
Switzerland’s overbursting rivers, swollen by excessive rainfall, have resulted in some hydroelectric power plants having to reduce operations.
Nearly 60% of Switzerland’s electricity production is derived from hydropower, with 677 plants dotted around the country.
But more water does not necessarily lead to increased power production from this source. Several rivers, such as the Aare, are raging too hard for hydropower plants to cope with.
Six river power plants run by provider BKW have been forced to shut down temporarily, company spokesman Stefan Bütler told Swiss public broadcaster SRF.