Australians figure out how to kills agricultural weeds: No more herbicides – they do it with MICROWAVES!
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An Australian farmer, fed up with spending lots of money on herbicides that are proving less and less effective on weeds, in desperation turned to using a microwave oven as an experiment to “cook” the weeds and their seeds where they stood with a household microwave oven. It worked well enough that the idea was taken up by an Australian research facility which found not only that it worked even better than herbicides, the weeds stopped coming back.
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