Artificial lightning combats farm pollution
Tests in the UK have shown that artificial lightning can strip pollutants from animal manure. …
Farmer Neil Dyson is delighted with what he describes as a triple win. He told me: “It will tick lots of boxes. It will reduce our carbon footprint by cutting emissions of methane; it will help with the Clean Air Act by removing ammonia; and by locking nitrogen into the slurry it improves the quality of the slurry so it should allow us to reduce our need for artificial fertiliser”.