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Once you’re done, you’ll have squeaky clean floors and a delightfully refreshing home. To jumpstart your car, you’ll need another vehicle with a working battery, jumper cables, and a safe area to connect the cables. Connect one end of the black jumper cable to the negative (-) terminal of the working battery. Park the working vehicle close to your car, ensuring both engines are off. These are all great for cleaning but might be a bit much if you’re tight on storage space. Sweet sorghum is also much more water-efficient than most biofuel crops. National Sweet Sorghum Producers & Processors Association. Wittgreve, Richard. “Sweet Sorghum FAQs.” National Sweet Sorghum Producers & Processors Association. USDA. “Crop Production 2011 Summary.” National Agricultural Statistics Service. University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension Service. Oklahoma 4H. “Sorghum Facts.” Oklahoma State University. Bitzer, Morris J. “Production of Sweet Sorghum for Syrup in Kentucky.” University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The most well-known issue with biofuels is probably the food versus fuel problem. There’s the problem of mono-cropping: planting the same crop in the same fields year after year. There’s also the impact of growing the crop itself.

You also have to consider the impact that crop production has on the soil. For almost a century, health professionals have refuted these claims (Sawyer, et. U.S. cities like New York, San Francisco and Pittsburgh have followed their lead, using the same technology and terminology for the self-cleaning facilities cropping up in their respective downtown areas. I have found that buying a cleaner targeted for the specific stain you’re removing yields the best results. It’s best to perform dryer vent cleaning annually to maintain the dryer’s efficiency and safety in your home. Just as with corn, growing sweet sorghum to produce fuel means that much less land to produce food, but thanks to a new hybrid sorghum plant, sweet sorghum could provide the best of both worlds. In the Field. “Crops Growing at Oxford Research Station Hold Biofuels Potential.” North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. For every acre of land growing corn for biofuel, that’s one less acre of land growing food for people. I’m sort of a food nerd, and when I first learned that I’d be researching sweet sorghum, the first thing that came to mind was articles I’d read about sorghum crops helping farmers fight hunger in Africa.

At Slate, Gabriel Thompson writes about a little-used legal provision that could go far in helping farmworkers fight wage theft and other labor abuses. For either method, reach as far under the bed and heavy furniture as you can. If the image is too dark, you can modify the curves adjustment layer to lighten things up. Farming can be extremely water-intensive, which is a big deal when so many areas are struggling with drought. Baragona, Steve. “Drought Kindles US Farmers’ Appetite for African Grain Sorghum.” Voice of America. Nicholson, Blake. “EPA to approve grain sorghum for cleaner ethanol.” Huffington Post. Grain sorghum (not the sweet kind) can be processed into flour and used for baking. Producing biodiesel — as opposed to ethanol — from sweet sorghum is an even more recent development. Producing ethanol from sweet sorghum uses about two thirds the amount of water of corn and one seventh the water of sugar cane.