Arcadia Biosciences is helping farmers grow crops that use water and fertilizer more efficiently to reduce environmental impact, increase food security, and lower growers’ input costs. Its leading agricultural seed trait, Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE), has demonstrated increased yields with significantly less nitrogen fertilizer than conventional varieties.
We are confident in the global impact potential of Arcadia’s product pipeline, including nitrogen efficiency, water efficiency, and salt tolerance. With NUE, the company is poised to quickly capture a multi-billion dollar market, lower the input costs of the world’s most important crops, and significantly reduce emissions of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas with 300 times the equivalent impact of CO2.
Southwest Solar Technologies is working on renewable energy’s toughest problems: mitigating intermittency, eliminating water use, and reducing the significant capital costs associated with emerging energy solutions. With its solar dish-turbine system, Southwest Solar is developing a solar technology with the capability to provide dependable and inexpensive renewable power. The system uses a concentrating solar dish with mirrors to reflect the sun’s rays onto a high-efficiency gas turbine engine. The first solar dish-turbine system is under testing at the Southwest Solar Research Park in Phoenix, Arizona.
The first solar dish-turbine system is under testing at the Southwest Solar Research Park in Phoenix, Arizona. We see this technology as one that could allow for much greater penetration of renewable energy technologies with the addition of firm, reliable solar power. When we hear discussions about what percentage of our energy should come from renewable sources, we ask: Why not 100%?
ViaGen offers the latest in animal cloning technology primarily to enhance the performance, quality, consistency, and predictability of food production.
With respect to the growing global population, the World Bank estimates that food demand will grow by 50% and meat demand will grow by 85% by 2030. We see ViaGen as a critical leader in advancing both the science and perception of cloning technology so that food production processes can be more cost- and environmentally-efficient.
Horizon Analog develops interference reduction solutions by combining its patented key elements and methodologies in unique ways to provide low-power, nonlinear analog signal processing in real time. Horizon intends to license the technology to manufacturers of integrated circuit chipsets and consumer products in the telecommunications, power and audio markets.
We view this technology as a fundamental innovation that could become ubiquitous in a diverse array of applications, potentially wherever analog signals are processed.