Cold plasma could transform the sustainable farms of the future

Photo caption: At a greenhouse in Mirabel, near Montreal, the agriculture company Hydroserre is launching a pilot project to scale up plasma agriculture. Because the facility gets most of its electricity through hydropower, the project will run on renewable energy. Photo credit: Les Serres Lefort. Article by Stephen Ornes. Science News – September 8, 2021.

Physicist Stephan Reuter of Polytechnique Montréal spends most days using his expertise in energy and matter to improve medical technologies. Recently though, he stood in a sea of green to consider how a shower of charged particles might affect lettuce. […]

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