Plants don't get carbon from the ground. They get it from CO2... from the air... photosynthesis... the basis of all life. Plants need nitrogen to make protein... also other trace minerals... not carbon. Carbon in the ground is irrelevant.
I guess it is just due to ignorance about science that most people don't understand that GM, CRISPR, etc. just mimic the same processes that nature does trillions of times a day. Lots of mutations and viruses take genes from one species and insert them into others. Nature does this in a random manner, not targeted like scientists but the method is the same. I think some people fear some mad scientist creating a super-organism which will take over. That's hard to do. Nature does routinely create more hardy organisms through the same mechanism and humans have created a few hardy organisms. The most dangerous are superbugs created in industrial animal farms by bathing animals in antibiotics. No GM required. Nature just does its thing.
Interesting. I get flatulence from most beans but not from hummus (chickpeas). You must have different gut chemistry. Flatulence is methane (CH4), not CO2. (But methane is a potent greenhouse gas.) That's why cows are so bad for the environment. They emit lots of methane (burps and farts).
Plants don't use carbon from the soil. They use CO2 from the air. The whole point of this is to remove CO2 from the air and store it in the soil. "All plants produce suberin, a waxy, water-repellent, carbon-rich compound, also known as cork, that protects roots and resists decay. Coastal grasses make a lot of it to keep water out of their roots. It is one of the most stable substances around, persisting in soil for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. One of Chory’s goals is to develop perennial plants that make more suberin than existing varieties.
Looks like this is long term: All plants produce suberin, a waxy, water-repellent, carbon-rich compound, also known as cork, that protects roots and resists decay. Coastal grasses make a lot of it to keep water out of their roots. It is one of the most stable substances around, persisting in soil for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. One of Chory’s goals is to develop perennial plants that make more suberin than existing varieties.
Next time read TFA: All plants produce suberin, a waxy, water-repellent, carbon-rich compound, also known as cork, that protects roots and resists decay. Coastal grasses make a lot of it to keep water out of their roots. It is one of the most stable substances around, persisting in soil for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. One of Chory’s goals is to develop perennial plants that make more suberin than existing varieties.
Hi Vlad, This is a pretty lame attempt to troll us. Lots of far fetched "facts" and tenuous links which can't really be linked together... keep trying.
North Korea has been a master of this game for years. They are expert at ramping up rhetoric to get attention and concessions. Trump is a paper tiger. All bluster but he usually folds. North Korea knows that it would lose badly in any real war so they calibrate their rhetoric to a fever pitch but they are wise enough to know when to pull back. Can't say the same about Trump. He usually folds but there is enough erratic behavior and stupidity to tip things the wrong way.
When I had a job and a desktop computer, I turned the display to vertical (portrait) orientation. The Dell monitors had an easy pivot to do this. Much nicer to work on text, etc. BTW, why do they always specify ratios as 4:3, 16:9, etc. It's hard to compare. Why not just reduce the fraction to a decimal? 1.3, 1.7, etc.
Most cars are junked because the engine and transmission wear out and need to be replaced or rebuilt. Teslas don't have either, just an electric motor with one moving part which should go for many more miles.
Tesla does use 18650s (2170s in the Model 3) but their chemistry is "special"... not the same as laptop batteries. Teslas do have a sophisticated battery monitoring system and a battery cooling/heating system to keep the batteries at a comfortable temperature. They don't overcharge the batteries and don't permit them to get run down too low. Charging at Superchargers is carefully controlled to keep the battery temperature and charge rate in the range that is healthy for the batteries. This is much different than laptop batteries where most manufacturers want to publish high numbers for battery capacity so they routinely overcharge them and allow them to go very flat.
The US government is run by corporations who buy politicians. Voters are irrelevant. Corporations get tax breaks, subsidies and protection from competition. Voters get screwed.
The US Government pays for most medical research. The parasite drug companies use this research and patent the drugs and pay nothing for it. Lots of medical research in the rest of the world, too, funded by their governments. They just don't let the drug companies charge obscene profits for it.
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Could happen but hasn't in millions of years.
More cows lead to an increasing level of methane.
Plants don't get carbon from the ground. They get it from CO2... from the air... photosynthesis... the basis of all life.
Plants need nitrogen to make protein... also other trace minerals... not carbon.
Carbon in the ground is irrelevant.
Can't find any source that states corn takes carbon from the soil. N, P, K, Ca, Mg only.
I guess it is just due to ignorance about science that most people don't understand that GM, CRISPR, etc. just mimic the same processes that nature does trillions of times a day. Lots of mutations and viruses take genes from one species and insert them into others. Nature does this in a random manner, not targeted like scientists but the method is the same.
I think some people fear some mad scientist creating a super-organism which will take over. That's hard to do. Nature does routinely create more hardy organisms through the same mechanism and humans have created a few hardy organisms.
The most dangerous are superbugs created in industrial animal farms by bathing animals in antibiotics. No GM required. Nature just does its thing.
Interesting. I get flatulence from most beans but not from hummus (chickpeas). You must have different gut chemistry.
Flatulence is methane (CH4), not CO2. (But methane is a potent greenhouse gas.) That's why cows are so bad for the environment. They emit lots of methane (burps and farts).
Plants don't use carbon from the soil. They use CO2 from the air.
The whole point of this is to remove CO2 from the air and store it in the soil.
"All plants produce suberin, a waxy, water-repellent, carbon-rich compound, also known as cork, that protects roots and resists decay. Coastal grasses make a lot of it to keep water out of their roots. It is one of the most stable substances around, persisting in soil for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. One of Chory’s goals is to develop perennial plants that make more suberin than existing varieties.
Looks like this is long term:
All plants produce suberin, a waxy, water-repellent, carbon-rich compound, also known as cork, that protects roots and resists decay. Coastal grasses make a lot of it to keep water out of their roots. It is one of the most stable substances around, persisting in soil for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. One of Chory’s goals is to develop perennial plants that make more suberin than existing varieties.
Next time read TFA:
All plants produce suberin, a waxy, water-repellent, carbon-rich compound, also known as cork, that protects roots and resists decay. Coastal grasses make a lot of it to keep water out of their roots. It is one of the most stable substances around, persisting in soil for hundreds, possibly thousands of years. One of Chory’s goals is to develop perennial plants that make more suberin than existing varieties.
Put peoples into space!
Only China and Russia put mens into space
*put mans into space
FTFY.
*put womens into space.
FTFY
Hi Vlad,
This is a pretty lame attempt to troll us. Lots of far fetched "facts" and tenuous links which can't really be linked together... keep trying.
Just turn this loose on the robocallers. It should tie them up for a long time.
Here's one active effort:
https://citizensciencetahoe.or...
They have an app for "citizens" to collect data about water quality at Lake Tahoe. They post the results on the web site.
North Korea has been a master of this game for years. They are expert at ramping up rhetoric to get attention and concessions. Trump is a paper tiger. All bluster but he usually folds.
North Korea knows that it would lose badly in any real war so they calibrate their rhetoric to a fever pitch but they are wise enough to know when to pull back. Can't say the same about Trump. He usually folds but there is enough erratic behavior and stupidity to tip things the wrong way.
That's even worse. Much more confusing.
What's wrong with a single number for the ratio?
Irrelevant to me trying to understand monitor sizes.
When I had a job and a desktop computer, I turned the display to vertical (portrait) orientation. The Dell monitors had an easy pivot to do this. Much nicer to work on text, etc.
BTW, why do they always specify ratios as 4:3, 16:9, etc. It's hard to compare. Why not just reduce the fraction to a decimal? 1.3, 1.7, etc.
But your engine and transmission are shite.
Most cars are junked because the engine and transmission wear out and need to be replaced or rebuilt. Teslas don't have either, just an electric motor with one moving part which should go for many more miles.
Tesla does use 18650s (2170s in the Model 3) but their chemistry is "special"... not the same as laptop batteries.
Teslas do have a sophisticated battery monitoring system and a battery cooling/heating system to keep the batteries at a comfortable temperature. They don't overcharge the batteries and don't permit them to get run down too low. Charging at Superchargers is carefully controlled to keep the battery temperature and charge rate in the range that is healthy for the batteries.
This is much different than laptop batteries where most manufacturers want to publish high numbers for battery capacity so they routinely overcharge them and allow them to go very flat.
I think that's the "outsmarted" part. Everyone knew Bush was an idiot and very unpopular. Trump was a much better liar.
Trump outspent/outsmarted Bush (not hard to outsmart anyone in the Bush family).
The US government is run by corporations who buy politicians. Voters are irrelevant. Corporations get tax breaks, subsidies and protection from competition. Voters get screwed.
The US Government pays for most medical research. The parasite drug companies use this research and patent the drugs and pay nothing for it. Lots of medical research in the rest of the world, too, funded by their governments. They just don't let the drug companies charge obscene profits for it.