Sentences with phrase «burning kerosene»

Poor people cause climate change by cutting down forests, slash and burn agriculture, burning wood and dung, burning kerosene, etc..

Families move from burning kerosene for light to clean, sustainable solar lights for their homes.

Burning agricultural waste, or burning coal inefficiently, or burning kerosene for lighting — any fossil fuel or biofuel burned incompletely is going to produce some amount of black carbon.

It tipped over, spilling the burning kerosene on the floor.

Rock to Liquid Jet aircraft today typically burn kerosene, an energy - dense hydrocarbon fuel that delivers as much as 48 megajoules per kilogram (20,700 British thermal units per pound), allowing for long - distance travel.

Because they burn kerosene, they are far safer and cheaper to operate than the hydrogen engines used on the Saturn V.

Jets burn kerosene (essentially) and oxygen.

It is a constant, one - way stream of cash leaving our hands, and even the world's poorest send their minuscule earnings to monopolists in order to burn kerosene for light.

As there is no feasible technological solution to emissions from aviation — essentially, they have to burn kerosene to stay in the air — we must consider limiting the growth of the industry beginning with a moratorium on airport expansions.

Not exact matches

One of the men fell against a burning barrel of kerosene in the middle of the room that was used to heat up the club.

Claiming immunity to bullets and other supernatural abilities, the Boxers attacked Beijing months later, illuminating their warpath with the kerosene - soaked, burning bodies of captured Chinese Christians.

Also, the smell of Kerosene, traces of which can be seen beneath the burnt door frame and two burnt windows to the office fills the atmosphere.

Chukwudi Akasike and Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt Tragedy struck at No. 5, Obudu Street, in Diobu area of Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital as a newly married man, simply identified as Mr. Alozie was burnt to death while cooking with kerosene stove in his kitchen.

Cleaner - burning fossil fuels like kerosene would reduce deaths and greenhouse - gas emissions, but they cost too much for most Africans.

Beyond Kerosene The amount of emissions from aircraft compared with other vehicles is relatively small — roughly 3 percent of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- nonetheless it has a major impact on the climate.

The data obtained at the Department of Aerophysics and Space Research allows for validating kinetic models of the burning of kerosene, which is a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons.

Also, people heat their homes with coal and kerosene and routinely burn garbage and tires outdoors.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

I have a couple of 10 Litre steel jerrycans which I used for draining kerosene (UN1223 28sec burning oil) from a tank.

Attempts to relaunch it proved unsuccessful so it was used for local dances until someone knocked over a kerosene lamp and it was burnt out.

887 GtCO ₂ is the emissions from burning 285.6 Gt of kerosene (e.g., aviation fuel, home heating oil or the like, approximating that as C ₁₂ H ₂₆ and not dramatically different for diesel or petrol / gasoline).

At present, an estimated 2.8 million people die prematurely each year because of the smoky environments caused by burning solid biomass in inefficient stoves or from combustion of kerosene or coal for cooking.

Kerosene lamps are also easy to tip over, resulting in terrible burns and homes burning down.

Burning lots and lots and lots high - altitude kerosene for climos and their hangers - on to go on jollies to «Save the Planet» has always struck me as not only rampant hypocrisy, but also as a metaphorical two fingers to the rest of us.

Domestic refers to residential and commercial fossil and biofuel burning (e.g. cook stoves, kerosene, heating oil, etc).

Keep burning dung and hauling water, reading by kerosene lamps, charging cell phones on polluting diesel generators?

A major source is the primitive cook stoves used all over the developing world that burn wood, charcoal or kerosene.

A number of schemes, such as Eight19's pay as you go system can improve health (by cutting out the need for indoor kerosene burning) and save residents money.

These overlooked, shorter - term pollutants — mostly from burning wood and kerosene and from driving trucks and cars — cause more localized warming than once thought, the authors of the report say.They contend there should be a greater effort to attack this type of pollution for faster results.For decades, scientists have concentrated on carbon dioxide, the most damaging greenhouse gas because it lingers in the atmosphere for decades.

Demand for cleaner fuels from airlines has dropped as the price of kerosene, which is burned in plane engines, has more than halved since June 2014.

In one year a kerosene lamp burns nearly 20 gallons of kerosene, which at $ 3 a gallon means $ 60 per lamp.

I found this surprising and decided to try anyway because most foam burns as if it were soaked in kerosene.

Indoor pollution — caused by burning a fire inside your house, cabin, hut or tent to cook and keep warm — was a deadly global problem until the late 19th century when cheap kerosene, a fossil fuel byproduct, became available in America and Europe.

The aim is to enable communities (rural and urban) to preserve more trees, burn less kerosene, and reduce poisonous fumes inside their homes (from cooking and heating).

And just as solar ovens and efficient stoves can cut into the pollution and costs (monetary, time, and otherwise) of burning wood, more modern lighting options can carve into the pollution and costs of, for example, using kerosene for lighting.

Home oil furnaces can, with no exceptions I know of, burn both # 2 and # 1 heating oils, with # 1 otherwise known as kerosene, which is a solvent.

In developing countries the Soccket is able to give families a power source for lighting and cooking in place of kerosene lamps and wood - burning stoves that cause indoor pollution and numerous health problems for those that use them.

We've stopped burning liquid fuels to generate electricity, injected powdered coal instead of fuel oil into blast furnaces, raised the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE), lowered the kerosene consumption of jet engines, and improved the efficiency of thousands of industrial processes.

When we burn fossil fuels like petrol (gas to an American), diesel or the kerosene that we use in our jet planes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere.

Individuals can be exposed to carbon monoxide anywhere a combustion engine is found since these types of engines use gas, oil, kerosene and charcoal as fuel — all of which produce carbon monoxide when they are burned.

Carbon monoxide gases result from the burning of wood, natural gas, oil, and kerosene.

The odorless, colorless — yet potentially deadly — gas results from the burning of wood, natural gas, oil, and kerosene.