pomarede, 6 months ago to Cosmology

🚨 Advance publication by Camila Franco, Felipe Avila, and Armando Bernui, in #MNRAS on probing isotropy in the Local Universe, using the Arecibo ALFALFA survey data: study finds a signature of the Dipole Repeller we discovered back in 2017. That's just great!
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad3616

#dipolerepeller #cosmology #cosmography #cosmicflows #isotropy #universe #localuniverse #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodon #arecibo #arecibotelescope #alfalfa #survey #space #science #research #knowledge

AJStein_de, 8 months ago to Futurology

80% of #water from the Colorado goes to #irrigation, most for #grass to feed #cattle as far as Middle East; growing #alfalfa in one desert to feed #dairy cows in another. Utah uses 68% of its water for alfalfa, but #livestock make only 0.2% of its income: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/historic-draught-colorado-river-california-nevada-arizona-water-crisis-1234816087/

skykiss, 10 months ago to Futurology

#Water pumped from deep underground helps #alfalfa grow at the Saudi-owned Fondomonte farm in the Butler Valley, in western Arizona

Saudi Arabia bans industrial scale farming of alfalfa, to protect its limited water supplies.

So they grow it in a #US desert and ship it back home, using AZ’s scarce water.

Perspective: The prior republican admin even blocked efforts to track the amount of water being used. #Arizona get saudi the fuck out.
#natsec
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomonte-arizona-drought-saudi-farm-water/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQ5ODUwMjE4IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4OTQ4MDAwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY5MDc3NTk5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg5NDgwMDAwLCJqdGkiOiIzMDBhZTc5MC0wOWY3LTRkYWUtODhkNi04YTNkNDY4YzNmNzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNy8xNi9mb25kb21vbnRlLWFyaXpvbmEtZHJvdWdodC1zYXVkaS1mYXJtLXdhdGVyLyJ9.ez1ful0d3x4JvXNTYEs9s_7X3dWsNEh_iuxAmSfY9Zg