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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT: light altering paint for greenhouses could help lengthen fruit growing season in the UK
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:52:28 GMT
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On a sunny day (Sun, 24 Nov 2024 09:35:43 -0800) it happened john larkin
<JL@gct.com> wrote in <uko6kjh1ps8s5qsc10ttaoni1lgh4dk8p6@4ax.com>:

>On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:43:45 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>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.


I like tomatos
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