Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: light altering paint for greenhouses could help lengthen fruit growing season in the UK Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:35:43 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:35:47 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a0cd611d95ac0c11cda368df23112ec0"; logging-data="2455090"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+L2yFZCTdJHp9pe7Pk+lzX" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:iy+5Web3jk7EekbbuBpHoLL7vCU= Bytes: 2225 On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:43:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote: >Light-altering paint for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit growing season in the UK > https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241120122018.htm >Summary: > New spray developed by scientists could help boost UK farming and increase the UK's food security. > >Paper: > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.202400977 > >stuff they use, quote: >' > In this paper, we develop an approach based on readily prepared and cheap > Eu3+-containing polyoxotitanium cages (Eu-POTs) which, we show, > possess the necessary design features listed before. > Having established the ground rules for selective modification, > we introduce a working prototype luminophore with high PLQY (>60%) > which is soluble in a range of commercial plastics, including water-based > acrylic paint that can be sprayed onto conventional glass greenhouses > in an agricultural environment. >' Greenhouses will never grow much of the world's needed food. But things keep getting better: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/index-of-cereal-production-yield-and-land-use More CO2 is part of the reason, which is why people pump CO2 into greenhouses.