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How to build an iron farm in Minecraft Bedrock Edition

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Iron is one of the most valuable minerals in Minecraft as it can be used to craft reliable tools and armor in the early phase of any survival world. An armor crafted from iron is the third-best armor in the game, which adds up to 15 defense points to the player’s health.

Getting iron in Minecraft is pretty easy as they are found very commonly in underground areas. For mining iron ore, players need a pickaxe that is better than a wooden pickaxe, or else the ore will break but not drop as a collectible item.

The best way for players to get iron in huge quantities is by making an automatic iron farm. This article covers how players can make this farm in Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

Making an iron farm in Minecraft Bedrock

To build an efficient iron farm, choosing a spot at least 150 blocks away from a village is recommended to maximize the golem spawn rate.

The following items are required to build an easy iron farm in bedrock edition:

  • 20 beds
  • 3 stacks of any block for building
  • 35 glass blocks
  • 2 chests
  • 20 cartography table
  • Water buckets
  • 1 campfire
  • 2 stacks of any slab
  • 1 lava bucket
  • 1 hopper
  • 6 buttons
  • 1 sign

Steps for building




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Biden told of ‘rough year’ during cherry farm tour in Antrim County

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Traverse City — President Joe Biden learned Saturday that many Michigan cherry farmers are having a tough season because of volatile weather after he visited  a cherry farm in Antrim County.

Juliette King McAvoy, daughter of King Orchards co-owner John King, told Biden, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Lansing and Gary Peters of Bloomfield Township about the drought and recent heavy rains that have damaged the cherry crop.

At one point, Biden asked about the differences between two types of cherry trees in the orchard.

King McAvoy told him that the trees would normally be “laden with fruit,” but some of the branches came down.

“It’s been a rough year,” she said, adding that farmers really don’t know how to handle the volatile weather.

Michigan’s tart cherry crop for this season is estimated to be 65.6 million pounds, a 5% drop from the 69.3 million pounds harvested in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But both years marked a two-thirds drop from the 201 million pounds harvested in 2018 and a lesser but substantial decline from the 170 pounds in 2019.

Michigan is the dominant state in the country for producing tart cherries.

The state’s warm April led to a devastating early bloom when a days-long polar trough in May froze buds and kept bees from pollinating. Tart cherries took the biggest hit. They were already down about two-thirds, the worst of recent consecutively bad years, said Nikki Rothwell, coordinator of the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center, 10 miles north of Traverse City on Leelanau Peninsula.  

This was followed by four days of rain, ending last Sunday, that split cherries, mainly sweet ones. Farmers and industry watchers used words such as “demoralizing,” “devastation,” even “anger.”

Biden was then introduced to some of the farm’s cherry pickers.

After the tour, the president greeted a crowd gathered behind ropes as U-pick visitors and the curious gathered there. A heavy law enforcement presence and military flyovers gave clues about Biden’s trip to the farm despite the lack of a public notice about the location of the president’s destination.

After 3:25 p.m., Biden entered the orchard market and declared, “I’m going to look at the pies.” Employees gave him a tour of the market, where he was shown canned jam and canned cherries.

“You all want a cherry soda?”Biden asked his advance team, according to the pool report, and ended up buying six after an advance team member suggested getting three.

The helicopter and motorcade trip to the cherry farm came after Biden landed at Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City around 12:35 p.m.

At the airport, Biden spoke with Whitmer as well as the senators and at one point the governor and president held hands, according to the pool report. After the gathering broke up, Biden had an extended discussion with Traverse City Mayor Jim Carruthers.

The trip is the Democratic president’s third visit to Michigan in the less than six months he has been in office. Republican predecessor Donald Trump didn’t make his third trip to Michigan until March 2019, more than two years into his presidency.

Biden’s latest visit is part of a nationwide tour related to recovery from the coronavirus and encouragement of unvaccinated Americans to get shots of the vaccine.

Grand Traverse County, where Traverse City is located, has among Michigan’s highest vaccination rates with 68.1% of adults 16 years and older having received at least one dose of COVID vaccine — close to Biden’s goal of 70% by July 4. That compares with the statewide average of 56.5% through Friday.

Vice President Kamala Harris was to make a similar trip to Detroit on Monday to encourage vaccinations, but that visit was postponed after major flooding in the city over the weekend.

Biden’s trip comes after the White House acknowledged last week that it would be likely to miss its goal of partially vaccinating at least 70% of U.S. adults by the Fourth of July. Instead, the country will probably hit 70% of vaccinations for Americans age 27 and older by Sunday. 

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have met Biden’s goal of 70% partially vaccinated, but Michigan is not among that group.

The White House also mentioned the bipartisan Senate talks about an infrastructure spending package prior to the trip, but the topic wasn’t raised during the cherry farm tour.

Before a gathering of reporters after the tour, Whitmer was asked if she spoke to Biden about infrastructure projects specifically for Michigan that the package might finance.

“I’m the ‘fix the damn roads’ governor, so I talk infrastructure with everybody, including the president,” she said. “We haven’t had a conversation about specific projects, but certainly with the incredible flooding that we suffered a week and a half ago, infrastructure is on everyone’s mind.

“What we saw (in Detroit) was a lack of investment in infrastructure combined with climate change — and all of our freeways were flooded within hours.”

Whitmer added with a smile that it was also the reason “why this infrastructure package is so important. That’s also why I got the president rocky road fudge from Mackinac Island for his trip here.”

Biden was last in Michigan on May 18, when he visited a Ford Motor Co. truck plant in Dearborn and took a spin in the electric F-150 Lightning. Before that, he visited the Pfizer plant in Portage that manufactures the two-dose COVID-19 vaccine.

First lady Jill Biden traveled to Michigan in June, speaking at a pop-up vaccine clinic at Grand Rapids Community College’s DeVos campus.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona also came to Michigan last month, stopping at community colleges in Dearborn and Warren to encourage young people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and highlight the Biden administration’s effort to provide two years of free college.

This time around, Biden won’t be making a stop in southeast Michigan due to the massive cleanup that’s underway from flooding, which has kept the Interstate 94 freeway closed in Detroit and Dearborn, said U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn.

“It wouldn’t make sense to take valuable resources away from the flooding recovery in many communities,” Dingell told The Detroit News on Friday after spending her morning  touring flood-damaged homes. “He’s fully aware of what’s going on in Michigan because I raised it with him at the White House on Wednesday.”

Biden’s senior staff is monitoring the situation, and the president “wants to do whatever he can to be supportive,” she said.

kbouffard@detroitnews.com

Staff Writer Melissa Nann Burke and freelance writer John Barnes contributed.

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U.S. gives go-ahead for first major offshore wind farm

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The U.S. offshore wind sector took a major step forward Tuesday after authorities gave the green light for the construction and operation of the 800 megawatt (MW) Vineyard Wind 1 project.

In a statement, the U.S. Department of the Interior described the development, which will be located in waters off the coast of Massachusetts, as “the first large-scale, offshore wind project in the United States.”

The Vineyard Wind project, it said, was expected to generate 3,600 jobs and “provide enough power for 400,000 homes and businesses.”

The DOI added that a Record of Decision had granted Vineyard Wind “final federal approval to install 84 or fewer turbines off Massachusetts as part of an 800-megawatt offshore wind energy facility.”

According to the Vineyard Wind team, the facility will use GE Renewable Energy’s huge Haliade-X turbines, which will mean only 62 will actually be required.

Vineyard Wind is a 50-50 joint venture between Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and Avangrid Renewables. The latter is a subsidiary of Avangrid, which is part of the Iberdrola Group, a major utility headquartered in Spain.

Iberdrola says investment in the project will amount to 2.5 billion euros ($3.03 billion). If all goes to plan, it could enter into service in 2023.

In a phone interview on Tuesday, Jonathan Cole, who is global managing director of offshore wind at Iberdrola, told CNBC that the project’s approval was “extremely significant.”

“This is the permit needed to now allow us to go ahead and build the project,” he said.

“This is the first of its kind in the U.S. and it’s expected to be followed by many other projects, so this is really the one which is going to kick off, in earnest, the U.S. offshore wind sector.” 

“So it’s a huge moment for this project and for our companies, but it’s also a huge moment for the whole of the U.S. offshore wind sector.”

Cole’s views were echoed by a number of organizations, including the National Ocean Industries Association.

Its president, Erik Milito, described the greenlighting of the Vineyard Wind project as “an American energy milestone.”

“American offshore wind is a generational opportunity, and its outlook is more certain with the Vineyard Wind Record of Decision,” he went on to add.

Elsewhere, Heather Zichal, who is CEO of the American Clean Power Association, hailed “a historic day for clean energy and for our country that has been over a decade in the making.”

“Now is the time to push forward on offshore wind, catch up to global competitors, and decarbonize our electric grid, so that the U.S. can deliver economic and environmental benefits to our citizens and combat climate change,” she added.

Tuesday’s news represents the latest shot in the arm for America’s fledgling offshore wind sector.

In March, the Departments of Energy, Interior and Commerce said they wanted offshore wind capacity to hit 30 gigawatts (GW) by 2030, a move the Biden administration hopes will generate thousands of jobs and unlock billions of dollars in investment over the coming years.

If this target is realized it would represent a significant expansion for the U.S. While America is home to a well-developed onshore wind industry, the country’s first offshore wind facility, the 30 MW Block Island Wind Farm, only started commercial operations in late 2016.

Preliminary figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration show that, for 2020, wind’s share of utility-scale electricity generation came to 8.4%.

By contrast, natural gas and coal’s shares were 40.3% and 19.3% respectively. Overall, fossil fuels had a 60.3% share while nuclear and renewables had shares of 19.7% and 19.8%.

Looking at the global picture for offshore wind, the U.S. still has a ways to go before it catches up with more mature markets, such as the one found in Europe.

Last year, the sector there attracted over 26 billion euros (around $31.5 billion) of investment, a record amount, according to figures from industry body WindEurope. In 2020, 2.9 GW of offshore wind capacity was installed in Europe.

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Fallen debris from SpaceX rocket launch lands on a farm in central Washington

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This pressure vessel, which came from the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, fell onto a farm in central Washington, local authorities reported April 2, 2021.  (Image credit: Grant County Sheriff/Twitter)

A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone’s farm in central Washington, local authorities reported Friday (April 2) — about one week after the falling rocket debris sparked reports of “shooting stars” the U.S. Pacific Northwest. 

According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, the recovered object appears to be a composite overwrapped pressure vessel, or COPV, belonging to the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched March 4 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on a mission dubbed Starlink 17.  

“SpaceX recovered a Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel from last week’s Falcon 9 re-entry. It was found on private property in southwest Grant County this week,” the Grant County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a statement on Twitter, adding that they would not provide the exact location or the name of the man whose property it fell on. 

“Media and treasure hunters: we are not disclosing specifics. The property owner simply wants to be left alone,” the sheriff’s office said in the tweet. 

Related: Falling SpaceX debris puts on a light show in the sky

Although  Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered 60 Starlink satellites to orbit last month, the rocket’s second stage didn’t deorbit properly after completing the mission. The second stage is the smaller, upper part of the Falcon 9 rocket that separates from the main booster to take satellites to their intended orbit. 

While the main booster returns to Earth for a landing (so SpaceX can refurbish and reuse it on future launches), once the second stage has completed its role in the mission, it is either intentionally destroyed or left to linger in orbit. Typically it conducts a “deorbit burn” that sends the craft on a safe trajectory to burn up in the atmosphere above the Pacific Ocean. 

SpaceX’s Starlink 17 mission lifts off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on March 4, 2021. (Image credit: SpaceX)

But this time, something went wrong: According to Ars Technica, “there was not enough propellant after this launch to ignite the Merlin engine and complete the burn. So the propellant was vented into space, and the second stage was set to make a more uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere.”

So, instead of burning up over the ocean, the rocket stage ended up breaking up in the sky over the Pacific Northwest — the fiery display visible not only from Washington but also from surrounding states and parts of Canada — just after 9 p.m. local time on Thursday, March 25, or midnight EDT (0400 GMT) on Friday, March 26.

The COPV discovered this week on the farm in southwestern Grant County is about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long, and it left an impact mark on the ground about 4 inches to 5 inches (10-13 centimeters) deep, NBC News reported. COPVs are used to store helium to pressurize the propellant tanks of the Falcon 9’s upper stage. 

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Space.com will provide updates as this story develops.

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Piece of SpaceX rocket debris lands at Washington state farm

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In this image taken from video provided by Roman Puzhlyakov, debris from a SpaceX rocket lights up the sky behind clouds over Vancouver, Wash. Thursday evening, March 25, 2021. The remnants of the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket left comet-like trails as they burned up upon re-entry in the Earth’s atmosphere according to a tweet from the National Weather Service. (Roman Puzhlyakov via AP)

A piece of burning rocket debris seen streaking across the Pacific Northwest sky last week crashed on a farm in eastern Washington state, authorities said.

After the March 25 event, a farmer discovered a nearly intact piece of rocket in a private field, The Tri-City Herald reported.

The approximately 5-foot (1.5-meter) composite-overwrapped pressure vessel used for storing helium left a nearly 4-inch (10.16-centimeter) dent in the ground, Grant County sheriff’s spokesman Kyle Foreman said. No one was hurt, he said.

The National Weather Service in Seattle has said the widely reported bright objects in the sky on March 25 were remnants of the second stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket leaving comet-like trails as they burned up upon reentry to the Earth’s atmosphere.

The farmer, who authorities said didn’t want to be identified, suspected the debris may have come from the rocket and left a message with the sheriff’s office over the weekend, Foreman said. Deputies responded Monday and contacted SpaceX officials. SpaceX confirmed it was part of the rocket and has since retrieved it, Foreman said.

The Falcon 9 is a reusable two-stage rocket designed by SpaceX to transport people and payloads into the Earth’s orbit and beyond, according to the SpaceX website. It says there have been 111 launches and 71 landings.

  • In this image taken from video provided by Roman Puzhlyakov, debris from a SpaceX rocket lights up the sky behind clouds over Vancouver, Wash. Thursday evening, March 25, 2021. The remnants of the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket left comet-like trails as they burned up upon re-entry in the Earth’s atmosphere according to a tweet from the National Weather Service. (Roman Puzhlyakov via AP)
  • In this image taken from video provided by Roman Puzhlyakov, debris from a SpaceX rocket lights up the sky behind clouds over Vancouver, Wash. Thursday evening, March 25, 2021. The remnants of the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket left comet-like trails as they burned up upon re-entry in the Earth’s atmosphere according to a tweet from the National Weather Service. (Roman Puzhlyakov via AP)

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SpaceX rocket debris lands on man’s farm in Washington

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A pressure vessel from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage fell on a man’s farm in Washington State last week, leaving a “4-inch dent in the soil,” the local sheriff’s office said Friday.

The black Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessel, or COPV, was a remnant from the alien invasion-looking breakup of a Falcon 9 second stage over Oregon and Washington on March 26, local officials said. The stage reentered the atmosphere in an unusual spot in the sky after sending a payload of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to orbit.

A Grant County, Washington property owner, who told authorities he didn’t want to be identified, found the errant COPV — roughly the size and shape of a hefty punching bag — sitting on his farm one morning last weekend. He reported it to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, GCSO spokesman Kyle Foreman said in a phone call. A sergeant was dispatched on Monday to check it out.

“Neither the property owner nor our sergeant are rocket scientists, of course, but judging from what had happened a few days prior, it looked to them like it was possibly debris from the Falcon 9 reentry,” Foreman said. So the sergeant called SpaceX, which confirmed to GCSO it appeared to be their’s and dispatched employees to retrieve the COPV on Tuesday. SpaceX didn’t respond to a request for comment.

The COPV left a neat, COPV-shaped dent in the man’s farm.
Photo: Grant County Sheriff’s Office

“Of course we didn’t have a protocol for this, so we just erred on the side of returning someone’s property to them,” Foreman said.

A COPV is a part of the Falcon 9’s second stage, the smaller section of the rocket that detaches from the main stage at the edge of space and boosts satellites farther from Earth. The COPV stores helium at pressures of nearly 6,000psi, which is used to pressurize the second stage’s large tanks of propellant.

While most second stage parts either hang out in orbit for years or reenter Earth over the ocean, last week’s stage put on a spectacular nighttime show over populated areas in the northwestern US. And somehow from that show, a COPV ended up embedded roughly 4 inches into the property owner’s farmland, some 100 miles inward from the Pacific coast.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a keen tracker of things in space, had been keeping tabs on the second stage and said its reentry wasn’t a surprise — but the timing and location of the reentry was a head-scratcher.

“It is a bit of a puzzle that the stage was not de-orbited under control back on March 4 — looks like something went wrong, but SpaceX has said nothing about it,” McDowell said. “However, reentries of this kind happen every couple of weeks. It’s just unusual that it happens over a densely populated area, just because that’s a small fraction of the Earth.”

The COPV in Washington wasn’t the only piece of debris to land on US soil in recent weeks. An absolute hellstorm of debris rained over SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas facilities on Tuesday when a Starship prototype exploded mid-air during its attempt to land, marking the fourth explosion of a Mars rocket prototype in a row in Elon Musk’s speedy Starship test campaign. The 16-story-tall test rocket successfully launched over six miles in the air, but its return was utterly unsuccessful and resulted in the loss of all test data from the mission.



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Apple will use Tesla’s ‘megapack’ batteries at its California solar farm

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Apple announced Wednesday that it’s building a big battery storage project at a Northern California solar farm it spearhead in 2015. But what the company didn’t share is that the battery packs will come from Tesla, The Verge has learned.

The newly-announced setup, which will store up to 240 megawatt-hours of energy, was approved by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in 2020, according to documents submitted last year. It will consist of 85 Tesla lithium-ion “megapacks” and be used to help power the company’s corporate headquarters in Cupertino. Monterey County’s planning chief confirmed that Apple will use the Tesla batteries in an email to The Verge. Apple declined to comment. Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

Tesla first announced the megapack battery system back in 2019. The 60MW storage setup Apple will be using is not Tesla’s biggest, though. The company has built bigger overall battery storage solutions in Australia and south of Houston, Texas of around 100MW in size. Still, Apple touted it as “one of the largest battery projects in the country” in a press release, saying the battery system could power more than 7,000 homes for a whole day. The Tesla batteries will make it possible for Apple to store energy generated by its 130-megawatt solar array at the farm, which is called California Flats.

“The challenge with clean energy — solar and wind — is that it’s by definition intermittent,” Apple VP Lisa Jackson told Reuters on Wednesday. “If we can do it, and we can show that it works for us, it takes away the concerns about intermittency and it helps the grid in terms of stabilization. It’s something that can be imitated or built upon by other companies.”

While Apple uses lithium-ion batteries in many of its products, it’s not known to be working on any grid-scale projects. The company is reportedly developing a lithium iron phosphate battery for its electric car project, though.

Apple and Tesla don’t have much overlapping history, though each company is notorious for poaching talent from the other. Tesla CEO Elon Musk also said in December that he tried to pitch the idea of Apple buying his company back in 2018, but that Apple CEO Tim Cook “refused” to take the meeting.

Tesla is best known for its electric cars, but it’s spent years trying to build up an energy storage business to compliment the solar products it acquired when it bought Solar City. It has gotten increasingly involved in large-scale energy storage projects like Apple’s over the years in addition to its home battery business.

While it’s still modest compared to the billions of dollars generated by Tesla’s car business, the energy storage division’s products has already netted at least one other strange bedfellow customer: in 2019, Volkswagen announced it was using Tesla batteries at some of its Electrify America charging stations.

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Scientists Develop an ‘Elevator’ to Generate Kelp For Biofuels 4x Faster Than Normal

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In the struggle to slow the runaway freight train of humanity’s destructive impact on Earth, scientists are increasingly looking at the role our oceans can play.

Teaming up with industry, scientists from the University of Southern California have discovered a ‘kelp elevator’ technique that produces ample seaweed, potentially providing a high-yield biofuel to help wean us off fossil fuels.

 

Many land-based biofuels capable of powering cars, planes, ships, and trucks are currently sourced from mass-produced farm crops like corn, soybeans, and switchgrass. There are several problems with these options, including using up limited food-providing land space, guzzling massive amounts of water, pollution from pesticides and fertilizers, and encroaching on rare biodiverse habitats.

Not only does relying on giant marine algae like seaweed avoid these problems, but the biology of seaweed is also more suited to use as a biofuel.

Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) can grow at an impressive rate of up to 35 cm (14 inches) a day, in ideal conditions. They constantly form new fronds, allowing the harvesting of the mature fronds, which can reach 30 metres (98 feet) in length and would otherwise just deteriorate and die, without impacting the kelp’s growth.

As kelp is a protist, rather than a plant, its molecular composition lacks the sturdy plant lignin that complicates the process of converting land crops into fuel. Furthermore, growing kelp also captures carbon dioxide, which in turn elevates pH levels and oxygen supplies in the immediate areas – helping mitigate the local effects of ocean acidification.

 

But questions remain over whether we can farm enough seaweed to fuel our future in an environmentally friendly way. Now, researchers may have discovered a way to effectively mass produce kelp – by raising and lowering kelp’s depth in the water.

“We found that depth-cycled kelp grew much faster than the control group of kelp, producing four times the biomass production,”  University of Southern California environmental scientist Diane Young Kim said.

By cycling the depth of the kelp across a day, the team discovered it was taking nutrients from deeper in the water that were missing closer to the surface at night, fueling its extra growth, while still receiving enough access to sunlight in shallower depths during the day.

The team found the kelp exposed to greater depths experienced some physiological changes that made them better equipped to deal with the increased pressure. Their pneumatocysts – the air-filled structures that help kelp fronds float closer to the sun – became thicker and more filled with fluid.

The researchers built a kelp elevator off the coast of California out of fibreglass and stainless steel, with horizontal beams they could “plant” juvenile kelp on. The whole structure was cycled through the water column using an automated, solar-powered winch.

 

“The good news is the farm system can be assembled from off-the-shelf products without new technology,” explained one of the team, chief engineer of Marine BioEnergy Brian Wilcox. “Once implemented, depth-cycling farms could lead to a new way to produce affordable, carbon-neutral fuel year-round.”

This technique could open up to farming huge regions of nutrient-poor ocean where kelp wouldn’t usually grow, which would allow us to also protect vital carbon sinks of naturally occurring kelp forests while still making use of the brown algae.

The team urged further investigation in this area as much remains to work out before we can see if this idea really is as good as it sounds, including the costs and energy requirements involved in growing, transportation, and converting the kelp biomass into liquid fuels.

But other scientists, like Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Scott Lindell, are also working on selectively breeding hardier and larger kelp species that would be even more suitable for use as a biofuel.

“In a hotter and drier world of the future,” Lindell said in 2019, “it will be hard to find a better resource for biofuels than farmed seaweeds that require no arable land, no fresh water, and no fossil-fuel-derived fertilizer in contrast to modern land crops.”

This research was published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

 

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Tim Tebow retires from professional baseball after five years in Mets’ farm system

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The Mets announced on Wednesday that Tim Tebow, the former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback, has decided to retire from professional baseball. Tebow, 33, signed with the Mets in September of 2016 despite not having played organized baseball since high school. Across parts of three minor-league seasons, Tebow batted .223/.299/.338 with 18 home runs, 48 doubles, and five stolen bases in 287 games.

“It has been a pleasure to have Tim in our organization as he’s been a consummate professional during his four years with the Mets,” Mets president Sandy Alderson said in a statement released by the team. “By reaching the Triple-A level in 2019, he far exceeded expectations when he first entered the system in 2016 and he should be very proud of his accomplishments.”

Tebow began his professional baseball journey in the Arizona Fall League and, as noted, made his way to the highest minor-league rung in 2019. Tebow did not play in 2020, as the minor-league season was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This spring, Tebow had again been invited to major-league camp with the Mets. 

“I want to thank the Mets, Mr. Alderson, the fans and all my teammates for the chance to be a part of such a great organization,” Tebow said in that same statement. “I loved every minute of the journey, but at this time I feel called in other directions. I never want to be partially in on anything. I always want to be 100 percent in on whatever I choose. Thank you again for everyone’s support of this awesome journey in baseball, I’ll always cherish my time as a Met. #LGM”

Prior to signing with the Mets, Tebow earned fame as a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback for the University of Florida. In the NFL, he made 16 starts in three seasons and helped the 2011 Denver Broncos to the playoffs. Since 2014, Tebow has worked as a college football analyst for the SEC Network and occasionally ESPN. 

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