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There are other attractions. As a legume, the winged bean converts its own nitrogen from the atmosphere, thanks to a happy symbiosis with guest Rhizobium bacteria in the plant's potato-like tubers. Consequently, it needs no fertilizer and even enriches the soil in which it grows. Any parts picky humans do not want to eat can be fed to cattle. As Horticulturist Jack Kelly of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences puts it, "It's like the butcher's pig. Everything's useful but the oink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Plant | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

After the University had invested more than $40 million in constructing about one-third of the planned facility, the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering on January 31 determined that the planned electrical generators would raise area levels of nitrogen dioxide air pollutant dangerously high. The agency refused to allow inclusion of the generators, which project officials have termed crucial to the plant's economic viability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boondoggle | 2/17/1978 | See Source »

...state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) last week announced its determination that the generators' expected emissions of nitrogen oxides would raise atmospheric levels of the pollutant so high as to be potentially hazardous to human health...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Power Plant May Receive New Hearing | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

...Nitrogen Oxides...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: State Agency Delays Decision On Medical Area Power Plant | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

Although most of the plant is already under construction, work on its electrical generators, which will produce nitrogen oxides, cannot proceed until the state approves them...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: State Agency Delays Decision On Medical Area Power Plant | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

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