Month: April 2007

Lamp Shades: Keep Your Shades Looking Great

Many people don t realize it, but lamp shades can drastically improve or hinder the light production of your lamp. Most people buy a lamp, plug it in and then just use it and use it without any more maintenance than changing the bulb when it goes out. However, by cleaning your lamp shades, you ll see that you can actually see better and that can improve your mood or your production in great ways. So, keep those lamp shades clean, it doesn t take much work, and actually see for a change.

Layers Of Dust Gather Over Time

What you re looking for is that caked on dust that s been sitting on your lamp shades. As your lamps stay in one spot, continuously, over a period of time, they ll gather dust. This coating of dust blocks a percentage of the light that you are trying to use to read with or write with or whatever else you re trying to do. For this reason, you want to make sure that your lamp shades are free from any layers of dust. Simply wipe your lamp shades with a damp cloth and you ll see that you can actually see better.

Whether your lamps are in your home or your office, the correct lighting, and enough of it, can actually improve your mood. A lot of light imitates sunlight and if we spend too much time indoors, with dim lighting, we can actually see our moods decline. So, cleaning off your lampshades every now and again can actually make you feel better. That s even more of an incentive to keep those lamp shades clean.

If you are trying to work by your lamps, whether it s for business or a hobby, you ll see that cleaning off your lamp shades every now and again can increase your production. By improving the light that s emitted from your lamp, you ll see better and you ll be able to work faster and more efficiently when you re not squinting in the dim light.

So, whether your lamps are in your living room, bedroom, kitchen or office, keep those lamp shades clean and see your mood as well as your productivity, and overall quality of life, improve. Who would have thought that all of this could be achieved with a simple swipe of a damp cloth? Just remember, when it comes to light, you can t ever have too many lamps. If, after cleaning off your shades, you find that you still can t see very well, simply buy a new lamp, or a couple more, the choice is yours. It all depends on how badly you want to see.

New Ethanol Plant is to be Fueled by Cow Manure

Although there seems to be a new ethanol plant basically every minute, there are those which are still considered as being more major and more important than others, and so while we should not forget about the rest of them, we should still make sure that we pay closer mind to these ones in particular.

For instance, there is the matter that came up most recently, in regards to the fact that a new ethanol plant was going to be fueled by cow manure; it should be known first off however that the new ethanol plant facilities may have a big impact in regards to the growing debate over the value of ethanol which, for those who do not know, is a liquid fuel that is distilled from food starches such as corn as a supplement or alternative to gasoline.

Furthermore, it is considered that ethanol is actually going to turn into our major source rather than gasoline, and this is a matter that is one of great and significance importance, not only to us and where we live, but as a global matter.

More on the New Ethanol Plant

In regards further to the new ethanol plant however, the new plant is expected to extract methane from 1 billion pounds of manure the product of about 500,000 cows in order to be able to generate 100 million gallons of ethanol, plus ash-by product, each year. As well, methane will then be derived from the manure and will then be burned to generate the steam that is necessary for processing corn into ethanol.

Basically, by mining mountains for energy, there are then certain facilities, such as the Panda facility, which is expected to save the equivalent of a thousand barrels of oil a day that would otherwise be required in order to be able to fuel ethanol production.

It is quite easy to see the importance of ethanol, as well as how great it is going to be in the future, and how promising the future truly looks if we were to actually turn to ethanol as our major source of fuel. However, we can truly only wait to see what happens, and you never know, perhaps within that time there will be more options to choose from as well; just as ethanol came into place ahead of gasoline, as could another come in front of it.