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History of N/C Quest
October 30, 2018
Hello. Welcome to Bio-Agtive, a technology of N/C Quest. N/C Quest is a company incorporated in 2005 that has over 15 years of research and development in Bio-Agtive Emissions Technology developed by N/C Quest. Bio-Agtive was first developed by Gary Lewis on his family homesteaded in southern Alberta in 2001. N/C Quest is the parent company that licenses the Bio-Agtive technology, product, and practices to encourage sustainable low-input agriculture and environmentally-responsible solutions.
The quest to understand plant physiology began in 2001 when Gary's irrigated crops failed to respond to positive growth after applying the recommended amount of fertilizer to the export Timothy hay fields. The economics of crop production was the driving force that caused him to begin his quest for a biological solution.
Gary recognized that the traditional synthetic ways of agriculture, that had been by science over the past 100 years, had sustainability, environmental, and economic problems. Gary's challenge was to change this tradition for a more sustainable future.
Bio-Agtive is the trademark that describes one of the newest technologies in agriculture and environment management today. In N/C Quest's travels across the globe, NC Quest finds the soil similar to its mineral make up. The big difference is how much carbon the environment/plants have been able or allowed to store and how much carbon has been lost to modern agriculture practices.
An excessive reliance on nitrogenous fertilizer follows the destruction of the soils carbon or humus base. The Bio-Agtive method recycles agriculture internal combustion engine emissions into plant nutrients by cooling the exhaust down through the Bio-Agtive system, which is designed to capture, cool, condition, and inject emissions onto the plants or into the soil.
The production system that N/C Quest produces is suited for improving plant growth characteristics of a plant-growing medium, like agricultural soil. Generally, the method involves adding a carbon nanotube seeding material to the fuel of an international combustion engine to produce a fuel mixture, which is combusted by the engine in pyrolysis to produce black carbon ultrafine and nano soot in the exhaust emissions. These are captured for conditioning, such that the nanocarbon soot is processed into carbon nanotubes for subsequent delivery to the plant-growing medium.
Although the various components of the system will be described in further detail, the overall production system generally includes an agricultural tractor or the like with an internal combustion engine operated by a combustion control system in a pyrolysis air fuel ratio to produce optimum ultra-fine and nano soot black carbon. A fuel-blending system introduces into a mixture of various fuels. These elements are the starter seed to the desired carbon nanotubes (CNT) to be produced, which can include signal wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), double wall carbon nanotube (DWCNT), multi wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT).
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The quest to understand plant physiology began in 2001 when Gary's irrigated crops failed to respond to positive growth after applying the recommended amount of fertilizer to the export Timothy hay fields. The economics of crop production was the driving force that caused him to begin his quest for a biological solution.
Gary recognized that the traditional synthetic ways of agriculture, that had been by science over the past 100 years, had sustainability, environmental, and economic problems. Gary's challenge was to change this tradition for a more sustainable future.
Bio-Agtive is the trademark that describes one of the newest technologies in agriculture and environment management today. In N/C Quest's travels across the globe, NC Quest finds the soil similar to its mineral make up. The big difference is how much carbon the environment/plants have been able or allowed to store and how much carbon has been lost to modern agriculture practices.
An excessive reliance on nitrogenous fertilizer follows the destruction of the soils carbon or humus base. The Bio-Agtive method recycles agriculture internal combustion engine emissions into plant nutrients by cooling the exhaust down through the Bio-Agtive system, which is designed to capture, cool, condition, and inject emissions onto the plants or into the soil.
The production system that N/C Quest produces is suited for improving plant growth characteristics of a plant-growing medium, like agricultural soil. Generally, the method involves adding a carbon nanotube seeding material to the fuel of an international combustion engine to produce a fuel mixture, which is combusted by the engine in pyrolysis to produce black carbon ultrafine and nano soot in the exhaust emissions. These are captured for conditioning, such that the nanocarbon soot is processed into carbon nanotubes for subsequent delivery to the plant-growing medium.
Although the various components of the system will be described in further detail, the overall production system generally includes an agricultural tractor or the like with an internal combustion engine operated by a combustion control system in a pyrolysis air fuel ratio to produce optimum ultra-fine and nano soot black carbon. A fuel-blending system introduces into a mixture of various fuels. These elements are the starter seed to the desired carbon nanotubes (CNT) to be produced, which can include signal wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), double wall carbon nanotube (DWCNT), multi wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT).