Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World articles from October 2008

Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World archives from October 2008

"To the people who are engineering the future of our planet ... ".(FROM THE President)
October 1, 2008... Bioenergy, food security, water quality, and environmental restoration are among the important societal objectives that ASABE members work toward. We contribute our competencies to teams that include a great many technical, scientific, and...

Celebrating a century of tractor development.
October 1, 2008... Entire books have been written on tractor history. However, this feature's scope covers in thumbnail only the last century--the epoch of ASABE--and focuses on a top-six list of tractor changes, with emphasis on those that also tended to...

Adding value to poultry litter using transportable pyrolysis.
October 1, 2008... The safe and economical disposal of poultry litter is becoming a major problem for the U.S. poultry industry. Current disposal methods, such as land application and cattle feeding, are now under pressure because of pollution of water resources...

Research and education priorities in agriculture, forestry, and energy achieving the 25x'25 renewable energy vision.
October 1, 2008... The current energy situation presents the United States and the world with both challenges and opportunities, especially for the U.S. agriculture and forestry sectors. It is evident that these sectors can make a major contribution to reducing...

Nanobiotechnology, renewable energy, sustainability, and the future.
October 1, 2008... The new fields of nanobiotechnology, renewable energy, and sustainability have a rapidly growing importance for today's science and technology and are good candidates for real prominence in the future. As yet, though, none of these three...

Embracing sustainable development as a profession.
October 1, 2008... Recent years have witnessed wide publicity of a variety of global sustainability issues reaching across political and natural borders. While some of these challenges have been around for decades, recent renewed interest has brought them to the...

TransAtlantic precision agriculture Consortium.
October 1, 2008... Sometimes things that sound too good to be true are indeed true: for example, an international student exchange program that provided American and European agricultural engineering students the opportunity to study abroad at absolutely no cost....

Treating hog manure with borax cuts odor.(UPDATE OCTOBER 2008)
October 1, 2008... Hydrogen sulfide is one of the compounds contributing to the stink from manure storage pits on hog farms. Microbial activity in the manure releases the hydrogen sulfide and other compounds. At an American Society of Micro-biology meeting in...