a bio-mass power plant is getting a second lease of life out of plant residues.ere's how the region of rajastan manages to take green energy production into its own hands. >> it takes more than one try to unload this truck. it's packed full with chaff from surrounding farms. but the truck isn't dropping its load at the dump. it's dumping it at a power plant where farm waste becomes valuable biomass. it's harvest time in the southeastern part of india's rajasthan state. farmers are cutting mustard plants -- one of the few crops that grow on such dry lands. for mohan chaudhary and his family, mustard plants mean financial security. >> we're now harvesting mustard that we sowed some four months ago. we sell the kernels and bring what's left to the power plant. >> the mustard needs to dry for a week before it can be threshed. harvest waste -- mostly husks and stalks -- are loaded onto trucks. not too long ago, famers used to burn the waste in their fields. today, they sell it to anand chopra, the manager of an indian power company. six years ago, he helped build a bi

as these plants grow, they pull caon dioxide out of the atmosphere and transform it into plant structureor biomass. the more these plants grow, the more carbon dioxide they store. earlier experiments, done in controlled environments, show that increased co2 levels led to more abundant plant growth. but the only factor these experiments accounted for was increased carbon dioxide. would plant productivity increase in real ecosystems when other climate-change factors -- water, heat, and nitrogen -- are also taken into account? field: by the time we started this experiment in the fall of 1997, there was a lot of controversy about the magnitude of growth responses to elevated atmospheric co2. most plants increase the instantaneous rate of co2 uptake -- the instantaneous rate of growth -- when they're exposed to elevated atmospheric co2. but there were a range of different results about plant growth. individual plants in pots or individual plants, separated, in the ground tended to grow much faster under elevated atmospheric co2, and the data from ecosystems were quite mixed. we realized over

we made the initial investments in the plants and the pipes. once we accomplished that, there was this great recognition that we had a series of issues associated with wet weather conditions. storm events where, all of a sudden, you're dealing with a lot of water. narrator: large amounts of rainwater can cause flooding. engineers developed two approaches to stormwater infrastructure to transport water away from the urban environment. one approach was to carry waste and stormwater through the same pipe. this combined system was less expensive than building two individual pipe networks. and stormwater was seen as a way to flush out the sewers. through the 19th century, the combined system was considered state-of-the-art throughout the world, and is still in use in many cities today. but cities constructed these systems before treatment was the standard. and even today's largest treatment plant doesn't have the capacity to treat the sudden volumes of water rushing through a combined system during rain. the plant is overloaded, and the excess rainw

the crop is being planted. you need to plant enough of it so we have a critical mass to support the processing facilities. to attract a 25 or 50 million gallon ethanol cellulosic ethanol plant which we know that tech nothing is advancing takes 50,000 acres. our one project in central missouri we had to demonstrate that our ea that there was three times that amount of available non -- this is land that doesn't compete in the food versus fuel debate. this is land for the most part that is nonproductive. and so in our particular case i think it was very effective money spent and it did exactly what it was supposed to do. but i can't be done in one year. it takes one, two, three years, we didn't even have a planter when we started. we were planting five, ten, acres a day. >> right. is it possible that we're going to be here five years from now and we're still going to hear it's another three years? >> in the technologies i couldn't answer. >> see the concern is, mr. chairman, can i yield two more minutes. the conce

one plant, you will not get squash reliably because squash plants cross pollinate, what you want to, is plant your squash in what is called a hill, it is a mound like this, and you take this, you put it in there like that and put your third plant in, what will happen here s the plants will actually cross pollinate, this little plastic ring should be removed i am just showing the viewer but the pot will disintegrate this way the cross pollination you will make sure you get a good harvest of squash. >> got you. >> another question that i get a lot about summer veggies, people love their beans, but they don't understand why most of the beans after the first crop kind of die out, go on to any reputable garden website and look up an inknock lent what it is, is a micro fine powder, it is bacteria, and it actually gets those bean seeds inoculated and the beans are able to take in nitrogen naturally, through their leaves, throughout the whole summer, and they will give you a yield all the way to fall. >> so i didn't know you had to do that >> you don't have to, but if you don't do it, the o

we are planting one treat today here and two more.bama these trees -- also, these trees, since 1912, we have donated them. planting these trees all over the united states. thank you again for coming. i hope this tree, the cherry tree, will further blossom in the years to come. 6 trees we have planted in the square. and nine trees in golden gate park. still more in san francisco. more than 150 years of history of cultural exchange. this is really a great place. i cannot think of a more fitting location to plant a tree. thank you for coming and i hope you will enjoy it. [applause] >> one other short, special ceremony that i want to acknowledge. we're joined by our fire chief. we are joined by our director of public works. we are joined by our director of the department of the environment. human rights commissioners -- we are joined by the state department. i do nothing we have ever met. we do -- i do not think we have ever met. our human rights commissioner is here. and our school board is here. john from our city administrator's office

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so you want a lot of wild plants. wild plants. when i started messing with wild plants, reading botanical manuals and pestering botanists, there were about 1100 native wild species in the coastal plain of virginia. almost as many in the piedmont, that people could get edible parts from if they were willing to do that much work. you can narrow it down to about 100 requiring only a moderate amount of work, and you can live quite well. the major ones i'm showing are in -- i don't know if you can read it at this distance. it's a real busy picture, but i put that in a book where i knew people were going to have to use a magnifying glass anyway. the deciduous forest, things you can get in there all year long and also seasonal ones. whenever the nutting season, this is also a major hunting season. you hunt the animals that eat the nuts and you eat the nuts instead. it's quite simple. there are all kinds of things. most of the medicinal stuff i could be sure they used were also from the deciduous forest, but that's because i had to get my

we had to fill it with plants. the raised boardwalk gives the effect that you're outside. >> reporter: open through october 21st. today by the way, national public garden day. go online, google that. if you go online, a free voucher comes for conservatories like this place. conservatory in golden gate park. there you have it. 200 million years of plant history in about two minutes. >> well done. yeah. >> reporter: hold on. stay, stay, don't move. pretty good. see what i got him to do? holding that pose. >> what power you command, bob. >> reporter: he was jumping up and down before we panned the camera there. >> bob redell, ice age a whole new meaning. >> and that's always a great place. maybe you want to take mom this weekend. nice weekend in san francisco. meteorologist christina loren, am i speaking the truth? >> you are, or at least get her flowers. you don't want to forget. good morning. show you a live look. san jose, you can see we have that haze situated, suspended in the atmosphere. but i am happy to report

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in iowa, the amount of corn planted 41 points.r words they planted about 6 million acres of corn in one week. >>> meteorologist mike hoffman joins us now with the national forecast. >> that's a big change from the past week. it looks like those old oak flow is gone and we will see up and downs in the jet stream and perhaps a cutoff low coming out of the southwest. that could move slowly through the drought areas and provide some of the needed raid but that's just a chance at this point. the jet stream will be interesting this whole week. we are starting with a rigid east with the warm air is. it's already turning cooler across the great lakes and minorities. you can see a widespread area of showers and thunderstorms from the mississippi valley eastward to the eastern seaboard, a local or across central and northern plains states and maybe some hit and miss showers in new mexico and colorado. >>> let's go to wednesday. you can see the co-op and we are projecting for the southwest. cooler weather with a cop trying to develop, but it

this plant is literally weeks away, it's completed, the structure is completed. they're going to be producing cellulosic ethanol in literally the next few weeks. i think we have demonstrated with the production of this plant you can build a commercial facility and now being able to demonstrate that we can move those fuels into the fuel stream for motorized vehicles the s the final step to prove the whole concept. >> congressman, one short quick statement on that, it has become common knowledge globally that we are actually amassing a significant amount of biomass, it takes 1,000 tons an acre. to produce a million gallons of cellulosic ethanol. in missouri, we have had companies as far as japan come to missouri because of the awareness now by cellulosic ethanol technology owners of the fact that, one, the price of oil is significantly higher, so they're more competitive. but number two is, they're finally figuring out the chicken and the egg problem, which is you can develop all the technologies that if you don't have the biomass, you've got -- you have a mismatch

atorand so parts maa known as the "kanban highways" close to the assembly plants they service.d the success of these made-in-america japanese cars has pushed america's big three-- gm, ford and chrysler-- ce lean prucrunstein: have found religion, the g threif you will. so there's a diffusion of ideas. so it's two different kinds of diffusion: it's the relocation from japan to america of production and of methods, and then there is the diffusion of the ideas into the american automakers. narrator: the american car makers adopted enough of the lean production philosophy to improve their quality to the point that it satisfied the consumer and improved theirotline but every manufacting system has strengths and weaknesses. at theurof1sceury, a curious aspect of lean production came to light. rubenstein: the japanese companies found a fatal flaw in lean production and that is lean production meant lean profits, and as a result of that, during the 1990s, gm and ford, in particular, were pulling in higher profits than the japanese companies. several of the smaller japanese companies ha

we got a lot of fission power plants. how about fusion power plant? do you know how many fusion power plants there are in the world today? this is the 1990s, almost, yeah? about the 1990s. how many fusion power plants in the world? begin a z, honey, yeah. zero. no fusion power plants. hc. well, a century ago, there were no airplanes. people say, "how come there's no airplanes? "the birds do it. why don't we have airplanes? "why do we have to get our feet--from. "we go from one continent to another. "why don't you get in the great big airplane and go--sky?" what would people say a hundred years ago? our time will come. our time will come, but not yet. hmm? and now we say, "why don't we have fusion power plants?" you don't have any radioactive waste. this is a dream come true. you know, you get more energy out of 10 liters per water, per second, than you get out of all the power plants in north america, counting canada? 10 liters of water per second. i mean the poorest nation in the world can muster up 10 waters of liter-- 10 liters of water per second.

those are the street trees we want people to be planting. we do a lot of tree plantings. all of you must intuitively go, "of course it's good to plant trees," of course, i want to put a rain barrel on my house." but is there a measurable environmental impact? trees are going to take up a lot of stormwater over time and are kind of a long-term green investment. we've had more than 200 volunteers come out planting street trees. we need people to make active changes on their property. and to reduce the amount of flow that's going into the combined sewer lines, we're trying to install 4,000 rain barrels. narrator: homeowners can disconnect roof gutter downspouts from the sewer system and divert the stormwater into a rain barrel. schombert: the rain water then can be used to water lawns and gardens and infiltrate back in the ground slowly, rather than being piped to a creek where it disappears moments after the storm's over. it's being held within the watershed and it helps regenerate ground water and stream flows. hecht: that's what we're going to do this afternoon is think a

it's truly a unique wind power plant. >> reporter: the planned power plant in fukushima will be built offshore and the entire facility will be floating. the global output of wind-power generation has been growing 20% a year. europe has been installing offshore turbines mounted on structures fixed to the seabed. in contrast, japan is on its way to introduce floating wind turbines, more fit to be built in its deep coastal waters. the government is set to start an experimental run to check its feasibility. a substation will also be built offshore. electricity generated there will be delivered to consumers on land via submarine cables. here, an experiment is under way to build floaters that will keep wind turbines from gets displaced by wave shocks. japan hopes to develop floating power plants that are resilient to tsunami and typhoon and export the cutting-edge technology. in a nationwide project, the university of tokyo and ten japanese companies are undertaking the challenge to build wind turbines that are 200 meters high. they plan to make a prototype turbine by next summer, and two m

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about 650 jobs will be lost when the plants close. on may 25th in texas garden city kansas and iowa. the company suspended operations, based in the south dakota they said unfounded attacks led to the decision to close the plants, after the story broke many major grocery chains stopped using the product even though it meets federal food safety standards, u.s.d.a. gave school systems the choice to use it or not. >>> cattle markets still fighting to recover from the stampede of bad press from the pink slim controversy to a bse case in dairy cow, consumers pulled back and prices fell. now live cattle futures trending up, climbing about 3% since last month. june contracts hit a three month high, or three week high, grilling sea responsible improving demand looms. >> the industry fundamentals are quite sound. i think just a lot of turn lens in the water. once we get past that will a lot of reason to be optimistic. >> he said gas prices and summer promotions of beef should help with demand. he also expects the year's large corn crop to it he

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nuclear plants, and asks are they ready for a worst-case scenario, a fukushima-like meltdown? >> the i anybodya against change and against improvement, i think it's something we have to be vigilant about and push so the regulator can make sure that change happens. >> david >> brown: david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and we talk to pulitzer prize winning author stephen greenblatt about his new book, the story of the rediscovery of an ancient manuscript and its influence even today. >> one day, it is on the shelf and not instantly but decisively the world changes. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. mar funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> growing up in arctic norway, everybody took fish oil to stay healthy. when i moved to the united states almost 30 years ago, i could not find an omega-3 fish oil that worked for me. i became inspired to bring a new definition of fish oil quality to the world. today, nordic naturals is working to fulfill our mission of bringing omega-3s to everyone, because we believe omega-3s a

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. ♪ >>> you're back inside "the war room" chris plante i'm jennifer grandholm chris plante we thoughttten past all of that birther nonsense, but i'm sorry to disappoint you chris plante listen to this. >> so would you -- if they won't -- if you don't get an answer from hawaii in time if they won't comply, if they refuse to comply with this will you remove the president from the ballot? will you exclude him from the ballot? >> that's possible. >> that is so ridiculous chris plante one man who will be on the ballot this fall is dr. richard carmona chris plante his resume is impressive chris plante he was surgeon general under president george w. bush and as a teenager richard lived on the streets, dropped out of high school, went to vietnam where he was awarded two purple hearts and bronze stars. he put himself through college, and earned a medical degree on the side chris plante today i feel very privileged to welcome into "the war room" dr. richard carmona -- thank you for joining us. >> it's a pleasure to be with you, arizona is a red state it has a reputation for being difficult for