Cold plasma could transform the sustainable farms of the future

How the fourth state of matter can make a greenhouse greener — and boost plant growth

plants in boxes in a large greenhouse

At a greenhouse in Mirabel, near Montreal, the agriculture company Hydroserre is launching a pilot project to scale up plasma agriculture. Because the facility gets most of its electricity through hydropower, the project will run on renewable energy.

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Physicist Stephan Reuter of Polytechnique Montréal spends most days using his expertise in energy and matter to improve medical technologies.