{"id":3904,"date":"2016-08-14T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2016-08-14T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:21:21","slug":"military-mandate-to-reduce-pesticide-use-sparked-the-creation-of-a-device-that-kills-weeds-with-heat-and-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/military-mandate-to-reduce-pesticide-use-sparked-the-creation-of-a-device-that-kills-weeds-with-heat-and-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Military mandate to reduce pesticide use sparked the creation of a device that kills weeds with heat &#038; light #p2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3905\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/military-mandate-to-reduce-pesticide-use-sparked-creation-of-heat-light-weed-killing-device\/killing-weeds-light-main-with-naturezap\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/killing-weeds-light-MAIN-with-NatureZap-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"NatureZap wand at work\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3905\" srcset=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/killing-weeds-light-MAIN-with-NatureZap-600x401.jpg 600w, http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/killing-weeds-light-MAIN-with-NatureZap-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/killing-weeds-light-MAIN-with-NatureZap.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Good Neighbor<\/figcaption><\/figure>Imagine a weedkiller as effective as Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup (aka glyphosate) which doesn&#8217;t introduce any chemicals into the environment and can be completely localized: enter NatureZap version 2, which kills weeds by zapping them with a heat-light combo.<\/p>\n<p>TakePart says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/article\/2016\/08\/08\/air-force-tries-killing-weeds-without-light-beams-not-pesticides?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-08-08\">the tool was created<\/a> by the, &#8220;412th Civil Engineering Group at Edwards Air Force Base\u2014who developed the device with Global Neighbor,&#8221; to satisfy a mandate for the military <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/desertwings\/docs\/160722\/1\">&#8220;to reduce its use of toxic chemicals<\/a> under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/fisheries\/sikes_act\/\">Sikes Act<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that great?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a weedkiller as effective as Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup (aka glyphosate) which doesn&#8217;t introduce any chemicals into the environment and can be completely localized: enter NatureZap version 2, which kills weeds by zapping them with a heat-light combo. TakePart says the tool was created by the, &#8220;412th Civil Engineering Group at Edwards Air Force Base\u2014who developed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/military-mandate-to-reduce-pesticide-use-sparked-the-creation-of-a-device-that-kills-weeds-with-heat-and-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military mandate to reduce pesticide use sparked the creation of a device that kills weeds with heat &#038; light #p2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101,46,183,9,67,58],"tags":[924,925,923,922],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-environment-2","category-health","category-nature","category-new-solutions","category-plants-pests-rescue","category-protection","tag-heat-light","tag-replacement","tag-roundup","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}