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Solar Power Helps Water Crops

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2008-02-20 12:47:15 by Noel in Unplugged Living
...crops. These are watered through irrigation systems In Nigeria, how they water their crops is highly unique. They toned up and reconfigured a couple of old machines so that they now become water pumps. When completed, these old-machines-turned-water-pumps start working using solar power. I find that really unique and Im starting to wonder if...
 
Tags: water, solar power, crops, unique, water pumps, highly unique, nigeria, philippines, staple food
 
 
 
 
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Hello Kitty Online Game

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2008-02-25 12:00:30 by Laura Moncur in Gadgets Page
...crops; be sure to take good care of your crops so you will have a good harvest, and if you have a healthy farm you can even show it off to your online friends! You can use many other skills like cooking, tailoring, making furniture, and building houses. Commerce with other players will allow you to make a living and - perhaps - even get rich...
 
Tags: kitty online game, game, kitty, players, pets, drop pet cards, massively multi-player online, player, monsters
 
 
 
 
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Panasonic Lumix Camera Summer Sequels: FZ28 18x Zoomer, 14.7-Megapixel FX150 and Ultra-wide Angle FX37 [Digital Cameras]

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2008-07-21 10:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
...crops the unnecessary edges. No computer needed Scene Modes The DMC-FZ28 offers a total of 37 scene modes to respond easily to any shooting situation. The new Pin Hole and Film Grain modes add unique, film camera-like effects and ambiences to images. Additionally, the actual effects of the scene mode can be viewed on the LCD before taking the...
 
Tags: wide, camera, dmc-fx37 offers, dmc-fx37, wide-angles, 27mm wide-angle lens, lumix dmc-fz28, panasonic lumix dmc-fz28, fz28
 
 
 
 
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Kenya's elephants send text messages to rangers

2008-10-14 19:59:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta conservancy Kenya is the first country to try...
 
Tags: elephants, rangers, kenya, elephant, huge bull elephant, kimani, save kimani, elephant program, collar texts rangers
 
 
 
 
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Doomsday Seed Bank to open

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2008-02-26 08:02:32 by HASH0x8b04b28 in Fareastgizmos.com
...crops, making it possible to re-establish plants if they disappear from their natural environment or are obliterated by major disasters. The seeds of wheat, maize, oats and other crops will be stored at a constant temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius, and even if the freezer system fails the permafrost will ensure that temperatures never...
 
Tags: doomsday, doomsday vault, remote arctic mountain, vault, arctic mountain, agriculture seeds, seeds, main food crops, crops
 
 
 
 
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Going Green: Should you convert to Biodiesel? How does it work?

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2008-04-25 23:35:30 by Devin Coldewey in CrunchGear
...crops to fuel ourselves. Even as it is, half the worlds soy crop goes into fuel, and ethanol faces a similar problem. So we grow more, right? Wrong. Fuel crops are leaders in deforestation due to the huge amount needed, and it may be that the carbon footprint of destroying millions of acres of the Amazon (where soy is the biggest crop) far...
 
Tags: biodiesel, oil, pure vegetable oil, pure biodiesel, fatty oil, biodiesel car regularly, biodiesel reservoir, car, corn oil
 
 
 
 
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Technology to help feed the world in efficient ways

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2008-07-21 08:45:38 by Daniel in Product Reviews NetGadgets & Technology
...crops being harvested by autonomous, cold hearted, damn-dirty robots! Wait, sorryjust watched iRobot Seriously though, feeding the world is becoming more and more difficult and finding new more efficient ways to grow and harvest crops is a huge priority around the globe Armands AllTrack tractor of the future (add sci-fi eerie noises) was...
 
Tags: visit yanko design, yanko design, armand leconte, world, save storage space, space, sci-fi eerie noises, armands alltrack tractor, sci-fi screenplay writers
 
 
 
 
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Farmer Br00wn

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2008-07-21 07:00:39 by Anthony James in Yanko Design
...crops being harvested by autonomous, cold hearted, damn-dirty robots! Wait, sorryjust watched iRobot. Seriously though, feeding the world is becoming more and more difficult and finding new more efficient ways to grow and harvest crops is a huge priority around the globe. Armands AllTrack tractor of the future (add sci-fi eerie noises) was...
 
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Now Even Elephants Are Sending Text Messages!

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2008-10-14 17:40:00 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta conservancy Kenya is the first country to try...
 
Tags: elephants, kimani, save kimani, kenya wildlife service, kenya, text messages, kimani approaches, gps, voip