SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 29th, 2025

https://bit.ly/stc042925

#"geothermally active" #"radioactive decay" #closure #"Wyoming Craton" #nanophotonic #nonlinear #Fidelity #Efficiency #camelina #pennycress #triacylglycerols #acetyl-TAG #Simpsonville #USCC #bushwhackers #magnetometer #"copper catalysts" #SAXS #degradation #CO2RR

Field #Pennycress, a plant in the Brassica family related to #mustards and #cabbages, is usually considered a #weed. But one feature made it less of a wallflower: its very high #OilContent, about 50% higher than that of a #soybean. After close to a decade of controlled breeding and #GeneSplicing, the onetime weed is being cultivated as a source for #RenewableDiesel or sustainable #AviationFuel.

What Was Once a Weed Could Fuel #JetEngines
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biofuel-renewable-diesel-cover-crops-2077c807?mod=RSSMSN
msn link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/what-was-once-a-weed-could-fuel-jet-engines/ar-AA1f12g5?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&PC=EMMX01

Field Penny-Cress (Thlaspi arvense)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Field_Penny-Cress_(Thlaspi_arvense)_-_Guelph,_Ontario_2020-04-12.jpg

#PennyCress #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Plant #Plants #Bloomscrolling #Florespondence #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography

My field of #Camelina has *somehow become a field of #Pennycress.

*Many, many years ago pennycress was planted in this field as a cover crop. Seed bank is still viable.