This can’t be right, carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
[[leaf that uses bacteria, sunlight, water, and air to make fertilizer right in the soil where crops are grown.]]
Oh goody- Peas that poop
Kudzu does the same thing (fixes nitrogen from the air).
What could go wrong?
Are we talking about GMO’s?
In fact, I'll bet they even try to stop research along these lines.
If you plowed the damned Kudzu under wouldn’t it have the same effect, breaking down to the nutrients and fiber??
They’ve already got a nitrogen-fixing (read “fertilizer-producing”) plant. It’s called “soybeans.” Corn depletes nitrogen; beans replace it. That’s why you rotate crops.
Does this process cause the plant to become inedible?
The fertilizer aspect causes me to wonder.
Swamp Thing!!
It sure is.
However, the lib's would disagree...because it's GMO.
They are against this type of advancement that would benefit the poorest of the world the most.
Good grief. They don't need this when they still haven't grasped the notion of digging a water well and not pooping in it or their little ones having AIDS because they can't keep it in their pants.
Zero cost soil improvement is crop rotation, blood and bone meal and dung. Of course, they'd have to have a work ethic first so it's all mute.
OK. First, it’s not a leaf. “The device is made from silicon, electronics and catalysts...” Second, it requires some system to store the hydrogen. Then it requires a specific kind of bacteria that uses the stored hydrogen to make a “bioplastic” and a growth medium that has some sort of metered hydrogen release system. Then, this bacteria has to be isolated and applied to the soil, where it fixes nitrogen using the stored “bioplastic”.
You could save all those steps by just genetically engineering known nitrogen-fixing bacteria so they work with more food crops.
The discovery of nitrogen fixing bacteria in the UK and Brazil that can be sprayed on seeds then planted with this natural fertilizer producing sybiotic bacteria is already under development after field trials.
more complex greenhouses and vertical farms grow fish and plants. the water from the fish tanks is filled with nutrients mentioned in the article and then recirculated to feed the plants.