It applies to qualified insulation, windows, outside doors,
biomass fuel stoves and high - efficiency furnaces, water heaters and central air conditioners.
It applies to qualified insulation, windows, outside doors,
biomass fuel stoves and high - efficiency furnaces, water heaters and central air conditioners.
Not exact matches
Since the Local Stakeholder Consultation meeting, ECOTRUST has been included under the Improved Cook
Stoves for East Africa (ICSEA) Programme of Activities (PoA) which recently added a new methodology to allow ECOTRUST members to earn more carbon credits for shifting from a dependence on non-renewable
biomass fuel to the use of renewable
biomass as their primary source of
fuel.
Coupled with other low - tech solutions such as thermal underwear, heated clothing and tile
stoves, passive solar design could all but eliminate the use of fossil
fuels and
biomass for heating buildings throughout large parts of the world.
Biomass fuel use, burning technique and reasons for the denial of improved cooking
stoves by Forest User Groups of Rema - Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh.
While swapping out
biomass cookstoves with more efficient ones, or with electric
stoves powered by clean energy sources, improves indoor air quality for their users (an important issue unto itself), cleaning up fossil
fuel burning really ought to be getting more effort.
More: University of Nottingham & SCORE photo: SCORE Alternative Energy New
Biomass Cookstoves Significantly Reduce
Fuel Requirements, Indoor Air Pollution More Efficient Cookstoves Could Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 18 % Rocket
Stoves: Build You Own Ultra-Efficient Cook
Stove (Video)
Although there more quickly renewable sources of
biomass for cooking than wood, a 50 % reduction in
fuel usage compared with other tradtional
stoves is something to take seriously.
The VOTO, from Point Source Power, is described as a «
biomass -
fueled» charger, and is designed to be placed under the charcoal in the bottom of a
stove before cooking.
Around 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple
stoves fuelled by kerosene,
biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.
Switching to clean
fuels, typically LPG, or adopting advanced combustion cook
stoves that burn
biomass more cleanly and efficiently, can reduce exposure to such risks.
Windows and doors, followed by alternative - energy systems including solar energy,
biomass stoves, residential
fuel cells, geothermal heat pumps, small wind turbines, heating, ventilation and / or cooling, water heaters, and roofing.