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Weighing In: The Essential Guide to Silage Cover Weighting
Weight your silage cover like a pro! This guide explores effective weighting methods, common mistakes to avoid, and tips for maximizing silage quality and minimizing waste.
Unlocking the Secrets of Silage Covers
Is your silage at risk? Learn how the right cover prevents spoilage, preserves nutrients, and maximizes feed value to improve your farm's efficiency.
Protecting Your Silage: A Complete Guide to Covers
Tired of spoiled silage? This guide explains how to choose the right silage cover to protect your feed, reduce waste, and improve your bottom line.
Pumped Storage Liners: Installation Quality Assurance (CQA)
Pumped storage liner installed? Don't sign off yet. This is the CQA chapter: your guide to non-destructive tests, destructive tests, and the final walk-through.
Installing Pumped Storage Liners: Field Seams and Weather
Don’t let a bad field seam sink your entire pumped storage liner project! Learn what separates a good weld from a bad one and the weather rules you can't break.
Installing Pumped Storage Liners: Logistics & Deployment
Installing a pumped storage liner isn't like rolling out carpet. Get Part I of our boots-on-the-ground guide to RPE installation: shipping through deployment.
The Pumped Storage Reservoir Liner: Panel Layout and System Details
Think your pumped storage liner design is done? The real devils are in the details. See our engineer's guide to panel layout, anchor trenches, and penetrations.
Designing for the Cycle: PSH Hydrodynamics and Stability
A PSH reservoir is a brutal environment for a liner. How to engineer for its unique hydrodynamics: hydrostatic pressure, rapid drawdown, uplift, and stability.
The Pumped Storage Foundation: Site, Subgrade, and System Layers
Don't just install a PSH liner; engineer its foundation! A professional guide to geotechnical investigations, subgrade prep, and multi-layer system design.
RPE Specifications for Pumped Storage
Engineers, this is your RPE data sheet for PSH liners. Get the key specs, from tensile strength to ESCR, and compare the ASTM standards used to define them.
RPE Liners in PSH Reservoirs: A Practical Guide for Project Teams
PSH construction is back, but the old playbook is obsolete. Get the modern engineer's guide to specifying and installing high-performance RPE liner systems.
The Northfield Growers Story
Can a small group of gardeners in a cold climate provide fresh food for their community year-round? See our geothermal greenhouse case study.
The Bottom Line: Costs, Payback, and Incentives
Sticker shock got you down? Check out our practical guide to the costs, long-term savings, and financial incentives for geothermal greenhouse projects.
The High-Performance Envelope: Choosing Your Covering
Don't get lost in technical specs! For a greenhouse covering, only three things truly matter: light transmission, diffusion, and durability. Details here.
Designing the Greenhouse Structure
Don’t waste your geothermal system on a leaky greenhouse! Discover the essentials of foundation insulation and smart wall design to hold onto every bit of heat.
Energy Everywhere: Digging into Geo-Exchange
You don't need a volcano to use geothermal energy? Discover shallow geothermal, the "go-anywhere" tech that uses the dirt beneath your feet as a thermal battery
Going Deep: The Power of Hydrothermal Energy
Is it possible to generate electricity from water that isn't even boiling? Tackle binary cycle geothermal plants and other deep geothermal systems.
A Geothermal Primer: Understanding the Science
Think all geothermal energy comes from the Earth's core? Think again. This guide explains the science of geothermal and the surprising, critical role of the sun
Geothermal Greenhouses: Challenge or Opportunity?
Is your greenhouse really sustainable? Those tomatoes could be 6x worse than field-grown! See why geothermal greenhouses are both sustainable and affordable.
The Manager’s Playbook: The Payoff Season (Fall/Winter)
Your impoundment is full of birds. How do you keep them there? One mistake can empty your pond for the season. Get the expert's Fall/Winter management playbook.
The Manager’s Playbook: The Growing Season (Spring/Summer)
You've spent a fortune on your waterfowl impoundment. Don’t let it fail now! Here’s your Spring/Summer playbook for success in the all-important growing season.
The Case for a Lined Waterfowl Impoundment
Building a waterfowl impoundment? Don't bet on dirt. We’ll show you why a modern RPE liner is the only way to guarantee your investment will hold water.
Controlling Water in Waterfowl Impoundments
Building a world class waterfowl impoundment? High-performance water control structures don’t need to be high priced. Discover what defines the gold standard.
Blueprint for a Waterfowl Impoundment
Psst. Did you know ducks don’t like swimming pools? Learn why a 'messy' impoundment design with complex shapes and varied depths attracts and holds more birds.