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• In the rough
  A switch from standard vinyl to a PVC elastomer lets SoftSwipe cleaners better withstand abuse as golfers scrape mud, sand, and grass from their nonmetal spiked and cleated golf shoes. mount on the floorboard of a golf cart, giving easy access for golfers. "Steel-bristled brushes clean old-style...
• Vantage Point: The ethanol industry wants your sympathy
  of ethanol from sources such as wood chips, corn stover, and switch grass. But commercially viable cellulosic ethanol is akin to the tooth fairy: an entity that many believe in, but no one ever actually sees. Among the doubters: the Dept. of Agriculture, which recently reported that while...
• Global Warming, Jet-A Prices 'Fueling' Interest in Alternative Gas
  and butanol. Under intense study are feedstocks as diverse as corn, sugar cane and soy beans; switch grass and the weeds jatropha and camelina; oil from the Brazilian babassu palm; and algae-or the green "pond scum" cited at the beginning of this report. The most common feedstocks for ethanol...
• Alternative Fuels for Jet Engines
  fueling 100 years of powered flight with petroleum, it may be hard to accept the concept of running a 0.85 Mach-capable jet on an energy source derived from soy beans, palm oil, switch grass or a desert weed called jatropha, but organizations as serious as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
• EETimes.com | Electronics Industry News for EEs & Engineering Managers
  competitors, IBM Corp. Promising efforts follow HP's technology slide The commoditization of the computer industry has blunted Hewlett-Packard Co.'s technology edge. But the organization is still nurturing a number of promising point projects. Thomson buys Grass Valley Group. venture capital...
• Metering and Monitoring Water Consumption Across America's Golf Courses
  the irrigation system and guide the hand-watering practices.". Efficient sprinkler systems, TDR moisture meters, the selection of grasses on a course, the height at which the grass is maintained, the amount of shading the grass receives from trees, and the rate at which the soil is aerated are all...
• GRACEnet: A Unified Response to Climate Change
  collaborators are studying the effects of raising corn for biofuels on a Nebraska field where bromegrass had previously been growing for 13 years. Planting grass became popular in the 1990s as a way to save highly erodible soils and store carbon in the soil. Farmers nationwide were encouraged, sometimes...
• Easy E-field Imaging
  Content. Plug-and-Play Sensors. Modular plug-and-play conveyor-control system. Wireless network keeps grass green. Getting To Know You. A systematic approach to particle counting. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement. Related Sites. Design Engineer JOBZone. Marketing Resource Center...
• Fluid Dynamic's Polymer System Helps Utility Maximize Sludge Processing (.pdf)
  to help Hong Kong better manage water resources (Oct 28, 2011) Florida, feds announce major effort to restore River of Grass (Oct 28, 2011) EPA develops new planning approach to improve water quality in U.S. cities (Oct 28, 2011) WWEMA requests OMB action on Coast Guard ballast water rule (Oct...

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