Sentences with phrase «burn firewood»

The other obstacle is the unmet demand for basic energy needs of the some 2.8 billion people who still burn firewood, charcoal, or dried dung for cooking and heating, and of the 1.2 billion who can't reach for a light switch.

There are now a few very efficient wood boilers that burn firewood at very high temperatures and store the heat in hot water tanks for homes with hydronic heat distribution systems.

In rural areas, households still mostly burn firewood in traditional three - stone fireplaces.

«They were also throwing burning firewood, stones and cudgels at the convoy as it was leaving the venue after the successful rally.

The smell of burning firewood dominates the frigid breeze and filters through my nose, instantly warming my thoughts.

# 8, burning firewood for home cooking leads to deforestation?

Burning firewood elsewhere in the third world is more black carbon.

In the cooler part of the year, water too can usefully be heated by burning firewood.

That doesn't include burning firewood to heat your hut, and it doesn't count wildfires (even those from arson or controlled burns gone awry).

Not exact matches

When they arrived at Taravihitra, firewood was fastened to the posts to burn them.

Unlike some competitors, its locations feature a firewood - burning pit that they cook pork, chicken and ribs on.

I use most of the tree for firewood to heat the house or boil sap and then we either chip what's left to use in the gardens and around the fruit trees or we burn it to help the soil along.

The Amsterdam - based InterAcademy Council — a group that represents 150 national scientific and engineering academies — released a report this week detailing how countries can shift from burning coal and other greenhouse - gas emitting fuels to cleaner energy while also introducing modern forms of energy to the billions worldwide who rely on charcoal, firewood or even dung as their fuel.

Are there materials that would be more eco-friendly to burn in a fireplace than regular firewood?

This is akin to storing a huge amount of firewood but deciding to burn your sofa instead.

Otherwise, if there was a firewood shortage, you'd be forced to start burning your furniture, your kitchen cabinets, parts of your home, etc. to keep your family from freezing.

Think of body fat on the same basis as you would think of storing firewood during the summer, ready to be burned during the winter to keep you warm.

Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or burned as firewood or for manufacturing plaster.

With the backdrop of a rustic ski lodge, firewood burning, falling snow brightening the windows of the reception hall, everyone cozily mingled, from returning filmmakers like Isabella Rossellini reuniting with old friends to first - timers like Cindy Meehl meeting the new class of 2011.

Before you again demonize actresses who simply bought dogs, realize you've been sucked into carrying the firewood or supplying the burning brands to light the fires at under the stakes where these actresses are tied.

WHEN I WANT TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, I assist by burning fire control belts around the local village and assist with the supply of firewood for ceremonies and funerals.

An old wood burning stove fuelled with well seasoned firewood and pinecones gathered from the garden provides welcome warmth — even in the summer months the nights are cool in this mountainous region.

For instance if you kill 30 burning zombies you'll get firewood which can be used to combine with a shotgun to get a flame augmented shotgun.

The area's rainforest has been destroyed for firewood and slash - and - burn agriculture.

More than 2 billion people rely on firewood or dried dung for cooking and often burn these fuels in unvented stoves or fireplaces.

«I would say that particularly for women, you're absolutely right, they will bear the brunt of looking for the food, looking for the firewood, looking for the place to migrate to when all of the grass is finally gone as the desertification moves south and you have to keep moving your livestock for your crops are no longer growing, they're burning up in the intense heat that we're now seeing reported across North Africa, into the Middle East, and into India.»

4.3 million of these deaths are due to 2.8 billion people in the developing world who cook and keep warm inside their homes, by burning dung, firewood and coal — filling their living spaces with smoke and pollutants.

Do you go outside and just burn up your firewood for no reason at all?

The rest is caused by coal burning, the burning of firewood and cow dung cakes for fuel and cooking, and crop fields after harvest.

The big lesson from cutting and splitting my own firewood for over 30 years: anything I can do to minimize wood burning is a good thing!

Maybe we need to give the Africans something else to burn, so that they stop cutting down trees for firewood...

They burned 1.1 million tonnes of firewood in 2016, which provided 5.34 TWh of direct heat — and that might have affected the climate more than you might think.

If you look at areas like Lake Victoria where there was a decrease, the Tanzanians during the study period deforested 27 + % of their forest acreage and burned it as firewood.

Breathing or wood burning doesn't add extra CO2 to the atmosphere, because what we breath or use as firewood was removed as CO2 from the atmosphere months to years before by photosynthesis... In contrast, fossil fuels were removed from the atmosphere many millions of years ago and now it is one - way addition...

By that we mean their firewood is harvested sustainably, it is burned cleanly and efficiently, and its energy is used to reduce the net greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.

For example, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency in Washington State has sponsored radio ads with Duraflame to promote the burning of manufactured logs in place of cut firewood in fireplaces.

For fireplace burning, these manufactured logs are a good, environmentally friendly alternative to conventional cut firewood for several reasons.

My solution — plant more trees in this area, and stop the locals cutting them down for firewood by giving them something else to burn...

Creosote is created when firewood does not burn correctly, when wet or soft wood is placed in the fireplace and by closing the fireplace before the wood is fully burned.

Of course, you'll need to gather some wood to burn, which can be done by contracting with a provider of seasoned firewood, who will deliver and even stack it for you, or you can simply buy firewood at your local grocery store.

I'd have to plug in that stage one time, for ol' times sake, then take that firewood to the backyard and burn it.